Risks from CT scans - What do recent studies tell us?

Journal of Radiological Protection

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Walsh, Linda ^a   Shore, Roy ^b   Auvinen, Anssi ^c   Jung, Thomas ^a   Wakeford, Richard ^d  

^a BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

^b RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

^c STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RISK ASSESSMENT;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84896750865     PISSN: 09524746     EISSN: 13616498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0952-4746/34/1/E1     Document Type: Editorial

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