Patient dose management in digital radiography

Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Vano, Eliseo ^a,b   Fernandez Soto, J M ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

DICOM header audit; Digital radiography; Patient dose; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL AUDIT; ONLINE SYSTEM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SKIN;

EID: 57049163163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18235530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2349/biij.3.2.e26     Document Type: Article

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