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An audit of radiation doses received by paediatric patients undergoing computed tomography investigations at academic hospitals in South Africa

BACKGROUND: Diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) are a crucial element of auditing radiation doses in paediatric computed tomography (CT). Currently, there are no national paediatric CT DRLs in South Africa. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this article was to establish local paediatric DRLs for CT examinations...

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Autores principales: van der Merwe, Cornelis M., Mahomed, Nasreen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AOSIS 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7669994/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33240540
http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajr.v24i1.1823