Cardiac CT: Are we underestimating the dose? A radiation dose study utilizing the 2007 ICRP tissue weighting factors and a cardiac specific scan volume

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1013-1017

  Gosling, O ^a   Loader, R ^a   Venables, P ^a   Rowles, N ^a   Morgan Hughes, G ^a   Roobottom, C ^b  

^a DERRIFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY PENINSULA SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78249233337     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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