Radiation exposure to premature infants in a neonatal intensive care unit in Turkey

Korean Journal of Radiology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 416-419

  Olgar, Turan ^a   Onal, Esra ^b   Bor, Dogan ^a   Okumus, Nurullah ^b   Atalay, Yildiz ^b   Turkyilmaz, Canan ^b   Ergenekon, Ebru ^b   Koc, Esin ^b  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Effective dose; Entrance skin dose; Radiation dose; Radiography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PREMATURITY; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; TURKEY;

EID: 54349122253     PISSN: 12296929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3348/kjr.2008.9.5.416     Document Type: Article

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