Dose, Benefit, and Risk in Medical Imaging

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Lawrence T. Dauer, Bae P. Chu, Pat B. Zanzonico

Summary

Exposed to ionizing radiation from medical imaging technology has increased dramatically in recent years, with annual X-ray and nuclear medicine studies numbering over two billion. This book provides a focused treatment of key aspects of dose, benefit, and risk in medical imaging and how to best apply this information for informed decision making to improve patient outcomes.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence T. (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cance Dauer, Lawrence T. Chu Dauer
• Assisted by: Bae P. Chu (Editor), Bae P. (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Chu (Editor), Lawrence T. Dauer (Editor), Lawrence T. (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Dauer (Editor), Pat B. Zanzonico (Editor), Pat B. (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Zanzonico (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2018
• EAN: 9781482237542
• ISBN: 978-1-4822-3754-2
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Imaging in Medical Diagnosis and Therapy
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; SCIENCE / Physics / General, MEDICAL / Radiology, Radiotherapy & Nuclear Medicine, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Biomedical, Medical physics, Medical imaging, Biomedical engineering, Biomedical engineering / Medical engineering