Radiation and chest CT scan examinations: What do we know?

Chest

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 750-760

  Sarma, Asha ^a   Heilbrun, Marta E ^b   Conner, Karen E ^a   Stevens, Scott M ^a,b   Woller, Scott C ^a,b   Elliott, C Gregory ^a,b  

^a INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG EMBOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865841981     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.11-2863     Document Type: Article

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