Health Physics Society 54th Annual Meeting
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...es, digital subtraction angiography (DSA), which is a time- and cost-intensive procedure during which the investigator and the patients are exposed to ionizing radiation," said Dr. Schernthaner. ...The Quigley Corporation Reports First Quarter 2009 Results
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...00 chest x-rays. Four percent received over 250 mSv, and 1 percent received over 399 mSv. The researchers used the BEIR-VII (Biological Effects of ionizing Radiation) risk model to estimate lifetime attributable risk (LAR) of cancer for each patient, based on their CT exposures. Approximately 7.3 percent ...CT Scans of Pregnant Women Increasing
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... of National Taiwan University, Ma received his Ph.D. from Yale. Early in his career, Ma did research at IBM on advanced silicon device technology and ionizing radiation effects in metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) devices. He joined the Yale faculty in 1977, where his research and teaching have focused on micr...Imaging Diagnostic Systems Sells Its CT Laser Mammography System to Budapest, Hungary
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