Effective dose and dose-length product in CT

Radiology

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 604-605

  Shrimpton, Paulc ^a   Wall, Barry F ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; HUMAN; IMAGING; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION RESPONSE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOGRAPHY; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; INCIDENCE; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 61749083655     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2502081340     Document Type: Letter

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