Effective dose to staff from interventional procedures: Estimations from single and double dosimetry

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 95-100

  Kuipers, Gerritjan ^a   Velders, Xandra L ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGIST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; PERSONNEL RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOLOGIST;

HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICIANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 69949181074     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncp155     Document Type: Article

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