Personal radiation doses in PET/CT facility: Measurements vs. calculations

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-63

  Hippelainen E ^a,b   Nikkinen, P ^b   Ihalainen, T ^a,b   Uusi Simola, J ^a,b   Savolainen, Sauli ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHANTOM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIATION SHIELD;

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 57849142883     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncn213     Document Type: Article

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