CT dose metrics

Radiology

Volumn 267, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 964-965

  Huda, Walter ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER RISK; COLON; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOMACH;

HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84878309253     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.13122469     Document Type: Letter

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