Radiation risk from CT: Implications for cancer screening

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Albert, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CT screening; Lung cancer screening; Radiation carcinogenesis; Virtual colonoscopy; Whole body screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CARCINOGENICITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LUNG CANCER; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCREENING TEST; WHOLE BODY CT;

BODY BURDEN; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MASS SCREENING; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84883360966     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.12.9226     Document Type: Article

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