Radiation doses and risks in chest computed tomography examinations.

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society

• Publication date

  2007-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1513/PATS.200611-172HTPMID 17652493
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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