Radiology residents' awareness about ionizing radiation doses in imaging studies and their cancer risk during radiological examinations

Korean Journal of Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 202-209

  Gökçe, Senem Divrik ^a   Gökçe, Erkan ^b   Coşkun, Melek ^c  

^a Health Directorate   (Turkey)

^b Samsun Maternity and Women's Disease and Pediatrics Hospital   (Turkey)

^c ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ionizing radiation; Radiological imaging methods; Residents; Risk of cancer

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CANCER RISK; CHI SQUARE TEST; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY; IONIZING RADIATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT; RESIDENT; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYROID SCINTISCANNING;

EID: 84930480452     PISSN: 12296929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3348/kjr.2012.13.2.202     Document Type: Article

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