Pediatric radiation exposure and effective dose reduction during voiding cystourethrography

Radiology

Volumn 249, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1002-1009

  Ward, Valerie L ^a   Strauss, Keith J ^a   Barnewolt, Carol E ^a   Zurakowski, David ^a   Venkatakrishnan, Vaidehi ^a   Fahey, Frederic H ^a   Lebowitz, Robert L ^a   Taylor, George A ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION RESPONSE; SCHOOL CHILD; BLADDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; UROGRAPHY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URINARY BLADDER; UROGRAPHY; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 58149184220     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2492062066     Document Type: Article

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