Diagnostic and interventional radiology: a strategy to introduce reference dose level taking into account the national practice
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Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology: a Stradegy for Introducing Diagnistic Reference Levels Taking into Account the National Practice
Diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) are difficult to define in the case of X-ray examinations involving fluoroscopy particularly those performed in angiography and interventional radiology due to the large variability between examinations: fluoroscopy duration, number of images, image quality required. In order to tackle this problem a nation-wide dosimetric survey was performed in Switzerland i...
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1Department of Radiology/Center for Advanced Medical Technology, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyou-ku, Tokyo 113-8602, Japan 2Department of Radiology, Diakoniekrankenhaus Mannheim, Speyererstr. 91, 68163 Mannheim, Germany 3Department of Radiology, UCLA Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA757, Westwood Plaza, Suite 2125B, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA 4The Interventio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Radiation Protection Dosimetry
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1742-3406,0144-8420
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch547