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The effect of breast shielding during lumbar spine radiography

BACKGROUND: The aim of the study was to determine the influence of lead shielding on the dose to female breasts in conventional x-ray lumbar spine imaging. The correlation between the body mass index and the dose received by the breast was also investigated. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Breast surface dos...

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Autores principales: Mekis, Nejc, Zontar, Dejan, Skrk, Damijan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Versita, Warsaw 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3573831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23450158
http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/raon-2013-0004

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