Radiation Safety in Abdominal Computed Tomography

Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-38

  Tsapaki, Virginia ^a   Rehani, Madan ^b   Saini, Sanjay ^c  

^a Konstantopoulio Hospital   (Greece)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENTERITIS; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; PANCREATITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIATION SHIELD; TUBE;

HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; SAFETY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 74249083918     PISSN: 08872171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sult.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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