Dosing radiation: Limiting the invisible toxicity

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 799-

  Chambers, Charles E ^a,b  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGIST; ERYTHEMA; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGING SYSTEM; ISCHEMIA; NOTE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; SKIN NECROSIS; SKIN TOXICITY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY OCCLUSION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SKIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 43249108102     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21591     Document Type: Note

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