Multinational data on cumulative radiation exposure of patients from recurrent radiological procedures: call for action
- 2 December 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in European Radiology
- Vol. 30 (5), 2493-2501
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-019-06528-7
Abstract
To have a global picture of the recurrent use of CT imaging to a level where cumulative effective dose (CED) to individual patients may be exceeding 100 mSv at which organ doses typically are in a range at which radiation effects are of concernKeywords
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