CT Dose Index and Patient Dose: They AreNotthe Same Thing
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- 1 May 2011
- journal article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 259 (2), 311-316
- https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.11101800
Abstract
Estimates of individual patient risk, and epidemiologic studies assessing potential late effects, must use patient size–specific dose estimates—they cannot use only scanner output (volume CT dose i...Keywords
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