Comparison of measured and calculated skin doses in CT-guided interventional procedures

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 191, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1601-1607

  Tsalafoutas, Ioannis A ^a   Tsapaki, Virginia ^b   Triantopoulou, Charikleia ^b   Pouli, Christina ^b   Kouridou, Virginia ^a   Fagadaki, Ioanna ^b   Papailiou, John ^b  

^a Agios Savvas Cancer Hospital   (Greece)

^b Konstantopoulio Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

CT guidance; Entrance skin dose; Interventional procedures; Medical physics; Peak skin dose; Radiation dose

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; FILM; FLUOROSCOPY; LIVER BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY;

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SKIN; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 55549138023     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.08.1030     Document Type: Article

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