Women Image Wisely the 3 mSv Challenge for Nuclear Cardiology

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 385-387

  DeKemp, Robert A ^a   Wells, R Glenn ^a   Beanlands, Rob S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

nuclear cardiology; radiation exposure; sex

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; NOTE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY; CARDIOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

CARDIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 84962142230     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: 18767591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2016.02.018     Document Type: Editorial

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