Fetal Risk in Diagnostic Radiology

Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 4-10

  Nguyen, Cheri P ^a   Goodman, Lawrence H ^a  

^a BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DOSIMETRY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS RISK; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LEUKEMIA; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MICROCEPHALY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR;

FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84856163096     PISSN: 08872171     EISSN: 15585034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.sult.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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