Radiation Exposure from CT Examinations in Japan

BMC Medical Imaging

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tsushima, Yoshito ^a   Taketomi Takahashi, Ayako ^a   Takei, Hiroyuki ^a   Otake, Hidenori ^a   Endo, Keigo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PATIENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY COUNTING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958616973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2342-10-24     Document Type: Article

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