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Submillisievert chest CT in patients with COVID-19 - experiences of a German Level-I center

PURPOSE: Computed tomography (CT) is used for initial diagnosis and therapy monitoring of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). As patients of all ages are affected, radiation dose is a concern. While follow-up CT examinations lead to high cumulative radiation doses, the ALARA principle...

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Autores principales: Hamper, Christina M., Fleckenstein, Florian Nima, Büttner, Laura, Hamm, Bernd, Thieme, Nadine, Thiess, Hans-Martin, Scholz, Oriane, Döllinger, Felix, Böning, Georg
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7609045/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33169104
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejro.2020.100283