Radiation dose descriptors: BERT, COD, DAP, and other strange creatures

Radiographics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1439-1450

  Nickoloff, Edward L ^a   Lu, Zheng Feng ^a   Dutta, Ajoy K ^a   So, James C ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 70349562381     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.285075748     Document Type: Article

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