RADIANCE: An Automated, enterprise-wide solution for archiving and reporting CT radiation dose estimates

Radiographics

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1833-1846

  Cook, Tessa S ^a   Zimmerman, Stefan L ^b   Steingall, Scott R ^a   Maidment, Andrew D A ^a   Kim, Woojin ^a   Boonn, William W ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA BASE; DOCUMENTATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FACTUAL DATABASE; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; REGISTER; UNITED STATES;

BODY BURDEN; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; REGISTRIES; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 81255161356     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.317115048     Document Type: Article

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