Unenhanced helical CT for renal colic - is the radiation dose justifiable?

Clinical Radiology - Tập 54 Số 7 - Trang 444-447 - 1999
E Denton1, Alistair Mackenzie2, Tamsin Greenwell3, R. Popert3, Sheila Rankin1
1Departments of Radiology, Guys and St Thomas' Hospitals Trust, St Thomas' Street, London SE1 9RT, U.K.
2Medical Physics, Guys and St Thomas' Hospitals Trust, St Thomas' Street, London SE1 9RT, U.K.
3Urology, Guys Hospital, Guys and St Thomas' Hospitals Trust, St Thomas' Street, London SE1 9RT, U.K.

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