The development of a diagnostic reference level on patient dose for CT examination in Korea

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 463-468

  Cho, Pyongkon ^a,b   Seo, Bokyung ^a   Choi, Taekyu ^a   Kim, JangSeob ^a   Kim, YouHyun ^b   Choi, JongHak ^b   Oh, YuwHan ^c   Kim, KiHyun ^b,d   Kim, Sunung ^b  

^a Korea University Ansan Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Samil Pharmaceutical Co Ltd   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; GENERAL HOSPITAL; KOREA; PHANTOM; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; REFERENCE VALUE;

BODY BURDEN; HEAD; HUMANS; KOREA; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 49249108492     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm463     Document Type: Article

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