Breast surface radiation dose during coronary CT angiography: Reduction by breast displacement and lead shielding

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 367-373

  Foley, Shane J ^a   McEntee, Mark F ^a   Achenbach, Stephan ^b   Brennan, Patrick C ^c   Rainford, Louise S ^a   Dodd, Jonathan D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; CT; Epidemiology; Radiation dose; Women

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST; BREAST AREOLA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SHIELD; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; THORAX PAIN; THORAX WALL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BREAST; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960727269     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.4569     Document Type: Article

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