Dose-length product of scanners correlates with DNA damage in patients undergoing contrast CT

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1495-1499

  Beels, Laurence ^a   Bacher, Klaus ^a   Smeets, Peter ^b   Verstraete, Koenraad ^b   Vral, Anne ^a   Thierens, Hubert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

H2AX; Computed tomography; DNA damage; Dose length product

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CELL ISOLATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM EXAMINATION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNODETECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RESPIRATORY TRACT EXAMINATION; UROGENITAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; X RAY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA DAMAGE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HISTONES; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84856963636     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: 18727727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2011.04.063     Document Type: Article

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