CT scanning: patterns of use and dose

By F. Mettler, P. Wiest, J. Locken, C. Kelsey. Journal of Radiological Protection, 2000

711 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

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2. David J. Brenner
3. D. Lichtenstein
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Citations in the corpus

• Worldwide Increasing Incidence of Thyroid Cancer: Update on Epidemiology and Risk Factors (2013, background): “As a consequence, thyroid shielding has been recently recommended by the American yroid Association during diagnostic dental X-rays both in children and adults (American yroid Association (ATA) Issues Policy Statement on Minimizing Radiation Exposure fromMedical, Dental Diagnostics, available at htt”
• Cancer risks from diagnostic radiology. (2008, methodology): “For example, Mettler et al [23] reported that almost all patients having CT scans of the abdomen or pelvis had more than one CT scan on the same day; for all patients having CT scans, they reported that 30% had at least three scans, 7% had more than five scans, and 4% had nine or more CT scans.”