Radiation, Thoracic Imaging, and Children: Radiation Safety

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1053-1069

  Frush, Donald P ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Infants and children; Radiation dose; Radiation risk

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ANGIOGRAPHY; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; EWING SARCOMA; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IONIZING RADIATION; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOSARCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIOSENSITIVITY; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052288985     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: 15578275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2011.06.003     Document Type: Review

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