Tracking patient radiation exposure: Challenges to integrating nuclear medicine with other modalities

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 895-900

  Mercuri, Mathew ^a   Rehani, Madan M ^b   Einstein, Andrew J ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Cumulative patient dose; Effective dose; Radiation dose nuclear imaging; Radiation exposure tracking

Indexed keywords

BIOKINETICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; DOSE LENGTH PRODUCT; DOSIMETRY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; KERMA AREA PRODUCT; KINETICS; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; NUMBER OF DECAYS PER SECOND; ORGAN RADIATION DOSE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BURDEN; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE TRACKING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; REVIEW;

BODY BURDEN; HUMANS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 84868193703     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: 15326551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12350-012-9586-x     Document Type: Review

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