Potential Irish dose reference levels for cardiac interventional examinations

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 82, Issue 976, 2009, Pages 296-302

  D'Helft, C J ^a   Brennan, ^a   Mcgee, A M ^a   Mcfadden, S L ^b   Hughes, C M ^b   Winder, J R ^b   Rainford, L A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOLOGIST; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; REFERENCE VALUES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 65349171943     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/14857366     Document Type: Article

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