Estimating cancer risk from dental cone-beam CT exposures based on skin dosimetry

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 3877-3891

  Pauwels, Ruben ^a,b   Cockmartin, Lesley ^c   Ivanauskaité, Deimante ^d   Urboniene, Ausra ^e   Gavala, Sophia ^f   Donta, Catherine ^f   Tsiklakis, Kostas ^f   Jacobs, Reinhilde ^a   Bosmans, Hilde ^c   Bogaerts, Ria ^c   Horner, Keith ^g  

^a DEPARTMENT OF IMAGING AND PATHOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^e Radiation Protection Centre   (Lithuania)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cone beam computed tomography; dentistry; radiation dosimetry; radiation protection; radiation induced cancer

Indexed keywords

DENTISTRY; DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; ESTIMATION; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

AGE-AT-EXPOSURE; ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVERSION FACTOR; CORRELATION FACTORS; RADIATION-INDUCED CANCER; SKIN DOSIMETRIES; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CHILD; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENTISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENTISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RADIOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903649643     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/14/3877     Document Type: Article

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