Cardiac CT: are we underestimating the dose? A radiation dose study utilizing the 2007 ICRP tissue weighting factors and a cardiac specific scan volume
- 31 December 2010
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Clinical Radiology
- Vol. 65 (12), 1013-1017
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crad.2010.08.001
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