Slowing the Increase in the Population Dose Resulting from CT Scans
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Slowing the increase in the population dose resulting from CT scans.
The annual number of CT scans in the U.S. is now over 70 million. The concern is that organ doses from CT are typically far larger than those from conventional X-ray examinations, and there is epidemiological evidence of a small but significant increased cancer risk at typical CT doses. Because CT is a superb diagnostic tool and because individual CT risks are small, when a CT scan is clinicall...
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عنوان ژورنال: Radiation Research
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0033-7587,1938-5404
DOI: 10.1667/rr1859.1