Radiation Safety With Positron Emission Tomography and Computed Tomography

Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-45

  Devine, Catherine E ^a   Mawlawi, Osama ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LACTATION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PEDIATRICS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIATION SHIELD; RADIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGIST;

CHILD; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LACTATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SAFETY; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 73949141858     PISSN: 08872171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sult.2009.09.005     Document Type: Article

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