Utilisation of PACS to monitor patient CT doses

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 147, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 321-324

  AlSuwaidi, J S ^a   Bayoumi, M ^a   Al Shibli, N ^a   Sulaiman, H ^a   URrahman, T ^b   AlYarah, M ^b  

^a DUBAI HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

^b RASHID HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY BURDEN; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; PELVIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; BODY BURDEN; CHILD; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PELVIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 81255163033     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: 17423406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncr331     Document Type: Article

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