A comparison of pediatric and adult CT organ dose estimation methods

BACKGROUND: Computed Tomography (CT) contributes up to 50% of the medical exposure to the United States population. Children are considered to be at higher risk of developing radiation-induced tumors due to the young age of exposure and increased tissue radiosensitivity. Organ dose estimation is ess...

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Published in:BMC Med Imaging
Main Authors: Gao, Yiming, Quinn, Brian, Mahmood, Usman, Long, Daniel, Erdi, Yusuf, St. Germain, Jean, Pandit-Taskar, Neeta, Xu, X. George, Bolch, Wesley E., Dauer, Lawrence T.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5406971/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28446130
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12880-017-0199-3
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