Radiation exposure from cardiac imaging procedures: Do the risks outweigh the benefits?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 712-714

  Budoff, Matthew J ^a   Gupta, Mohit ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

epidemiology; imaging; radiation

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EDITORIAL; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCUPATIONAL CARCINOGENESIS; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY PREVENTION; HEART DISEASES; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 77955985299     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2010.03.055     Document Type: Editorial

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