Radiation dose to neonates undergoing X-ray imaging in special care baby units in Iran

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-59

  Faghihi, Reza ^a   Mehdizadeh, Simin ^a   Sina, Sedigheh ^a   Alizadeh, Fatemeh N ^a   Zeinali, Banafsheh ^a   Kamyab, Gholam Reza ^a   Aghevlian, Sadaf ^a   Khorramdel, Hossein ^a   Namazi, Imen ^a   Heirani, Mandana ^a   Moshkriz, Meisam ^a   Mahani, Hojjat ^a   Sharifzadeh, Mohsen ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; WHOLE BODY COUNTING;

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; IRAN; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 84862334778     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: 17423406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncr373     Document Type: Article

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