Estimating cancer risks to adults undergoing body CT examinations

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 168-179

  Huda, Walter ^a   He, Wenjun ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b AMRL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANS AT RISK; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862872781     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: 17423406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncr376     Document Type: Article

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