Low-level ionizing radiation from noninvasive cardiac imaging: Can we extrapolate estimated risks from epidemiologic data to the clinical setting?

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 517-524

  Laskey, Warren K ^a   Feinendegen, Ludwig E ^b,c   Neumann, Ronald D ^d   Dilsizian, Vasken ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

imaging; radiation; risk

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA N 13; ERYTHROCYTE TC 99M; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; RUBIDIUM 82; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; THALLIUM 201;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; HORMESIS; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION MUTAGENESIS; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; REVIEW; WAR; WHOLE BODY RADIATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GENETICS; HEART FUNCTION TEST; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIATION RESPONSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; UNCERTAINTY;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 77956020093     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2009.11.017     Document Type: Review

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