CT Dose Index and Patient Dose: They AreNotthe Same Thing
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CT dose index and patient dose: they are not the same thing.
1 From the Departments of Radiology of Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905 (C.H.M., S.L., L.Y.); University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Tex (D.D.C.); University of California–Davis, Sacramento, Calif (J.M.B.); and University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif (M.F.M.G.). Received September 8, 2010; revision requested October 25; revision received Dec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Radiology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0033-8419,1527-1315
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11101800