Personal experience with whole-body, low-dosage, digital X-ray scanning (LODOX-Statscan) in trauma

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Evangelopoulos, Dimitrios S ^a   Deyle, Simone ^a   Zimmermann, Heinz ^a   Exadaktylos, Aristomenis K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INJURY; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77955714328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17577241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-7241-17-41     Document Type: Article

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