Effective Radiation Dose in CT Colonography: Is There a Downward Trend?

Academic Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1127-1133

  Boellaard, Thierry N ^a   Venema, Henk W ^a   Streekstra, Geert J ^a   Stoker, Jaap ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Colonography computed tomographic; Colorectal neoplasms; Polyps; Radiation dosage; Risk assessment standards

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; DOSE CALCULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCREENING TEST;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIATION DOSAGE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84864820603     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2012.04.013     Document Type: Article

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