Fleury Diagnostic Center, Section of Radiology, São Paulo SP, Brazil; Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo, Section of Radiology, São Paulo SP Brazil; Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo, Section of Neurology, São Paulo SP, Brazil; Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo, Section of Neurosurgery, São Paulo SP, Brazil; Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São Paulo, Section of Pathology, São Pau...

Received September 10. 1979; accepted after revision April 23, 1980. I Department of Diagnostic Radiology , Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN 55901. Address reprint requests to E. J. Lantz, c/ o Section of Publications. 2 Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Section of Nuclear Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN 55901. 3 Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Cl...

D. Coman, H. K. Trubel, P. Herman, and F. Hyder Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, Quantitative Neuroscience with Magnetic Resonance (QNMR), Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, Bayer HealthCare Research Center, Wuppertal, Germany, Department of Pediatrics, HELIOS-Klinikum Wuppertal, University Witten/Herdecke, Wuppertal, Germany, Semmel...

1Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, Postgraduate Medical Centre and Central Clinical Hospital of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration, Warsaw, Poland; 2Radioisotope Centre POLATOM, Otwock-Swierk, Poland; 3Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom; 4Department of Pathology, Central Clinical Hospital of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Adm...

Background: With the introduction of computed tomography in diagnostic radiology a new and fundamentally different imaging modality has become available. Meanwhile, it is clear that the absorbed doses by the patients during CT were relatively high in comparison with those of other diagnostic radiology techniques. The aim of this survey was to determine the average absorbed dose in Yazd provin...

Medical Radiology – Diagnostic Imaging is a unique series that aims to document the most innovative technologies in all fields within diagnostic imaging and interventional radiology, thereby informing the physician in practice of the latest advances in diagnostic imaging and percutaneous image-guided minimally invasive procedures. The contents are intended to cover all organs, and all modern i...

Background: There is not any report on the radiation doses received by patients in diagnostic radiology sections in hospitals under control of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Medical Sciences University, in the south west of Iran. Objectives: The aim of this study is measurement of entrance surface doses (ESD) for the most routine types of X-ray procedures in radiology centers as part of ongoing d...

T. Svärd, M. Lakovaara, H. Pakarinen, I. Kiviranta, E. Lammentausta, J. Jurvelin, O. Tervonen, R. Ojala, and M. T. Nieminen Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Helsinki University Hospital, Department of Physics, University of Eastern ...

Received October 31, 2007, from the Departments of Diagnostic Radiology (D.J.K., E.J.S., E.-K.K., J.Y.K., K.K.O.), Diagnostic Pathology (S.W.H.), and General Surgery (J.J.), Research Institute of Radiological Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. Revision requested November 13, 2007. Revised manuscript accepted for publication November 20, 2007. Address correspondence to...

Introduction: Most of people are exposed to ionizing radiation sources during their lifetime including background, cosmic or man-made beams like radiation used in nuclear medicine and radiology. Due to unavoidable use of ionizing radiation in diagnosis and treatment of diseases, designing and correct implementation of radiation protection principles in order to reducing its har...