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Radiation dose reduction at a price: the effectiveness of a male gonadal shield during helical CT scans

BACKGROUND: It is estimated that 60 million computed tomography (CT) scans were performed during 2006, with approximately 11% of those performed on children age 0–15 years. Various types of gonadal shielding have been evaluated for reducing exposure to the gonads. The purpose of this study was to qu...

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Autores principales: Dauer, Lawrence T, Casciotta, Kevin A, Erdi, Yusuf E, Rothenberg, Lawrence N
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1831769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17367529
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2342-7-5