The additional dose to radiosensitive organs caused by using under-collimated X-ray beams in neonatal intensive care radiography

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 518-524

  Datz, Hanan ^a,b   Ben Shlomo, Avi ^a   Bader, David ^c   Sadetzki, Siegal ^d,e   Juster Reicher, Ada ^f   Marks, Kyla ^g   Smolkin, Tatiana ^h   Zangen, Samuel ⁱ   Margaliot, Menachem ^a  

^a SOREQ NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^f KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^g BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^h RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

ⁱ BARZILAI MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; LARGE INTESTINE; LUNG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OVARY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; STOMACH; TESTIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMUS; THYROID GLAND; X IRRADIATION;

CALIBRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; ISRAEL; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; X-RAYS;

EID: 54949132544     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncn090     Document Type: Article

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