Radiation dose index of renal colic protocol CT studies in the United States: A report from the American college of radiology national radiology data registry

Radiology

Volumn 271, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 445-451

  Lukasiewicz, Adam ^a   Bhargavan Chatfield, Mythreyi ^b   Coombs, Laura ^b   Ghita, Monica ^a   Weinreb, Jeffrey ^a   Gunabushanam, Gowthaman ^a   Moore, Christopher L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; GENDER; HUMAN; KIDNEY COLIC; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; REGISTRIES; RENAL COLIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897541587     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.14131601     Document Type: Article

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