Radiation exposure in the follow-up of patients with urolithiasis comparing digital tomosynthesis, non-contrast CT, standard KUB, and IVU

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1187-1191

  Astroza, Gaston M ^a   Neisius, Andreas ^a,b   Wang, Agnes J ^a   Nguyen, Giao ^a   Tonchecny CHNa, Greta ^c   Wang, Chu ^a   Januzis, Natalie ^a   Lowry, Carolyn ^a   Ferrandino, Michael N ^a   Necny CHNille, Amy N ^a   Yoshizumi, Terry T ^a   Preminger, Glenn M ^a   Lipkin, Michael E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Unicny CHNersitätsmedizin Mainz ^*  (Germany)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CYSTOGRAPHY; DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVENOUS UROGRAPHY; KIDNEY URETER BLADDER RADIOGRAPHY; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY PHANTOM; RENOGRAPHY; SEMICONDUCTOR; UROLITHIASIS; X RAY;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UROGRAPHY; UROLITHIASIS;

EID: 84885441840     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: 1557900X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2013.0255     Document Type: Article

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