Surface dose measurement in patients and physicians and effective dose estimation in patients during uterine artery embolisation

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 343-350

  Nishizawa, K ^a   Masuda, Y ^b   Morinaga, K ^b   Suzuki, S ^b   Kikuyama, S ^b   Yoshida, T ^b   Ohno, Mari ^a   Akahane, K ^a   Iwai, K ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OVARY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHYSICIAN; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION RESPONSE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; TISSUE LEVEL; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERUS; UTERUS MYOMA;

ARTERIES; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OVARY; PHYSICIANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; UTERUS;

EID: 45149094235     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm383     Document Type: Article

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