Radiation Safety in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Too Little or Too Much Concern?

Radiation Safety in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Too Little or Too Much Concern?

With rising numbers of extremely premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) who require multiple radiologic examinations for their complex medical conditions, concerns the risk of radiation exposure become a more prevalent issue. The biological effects from cumulative doses of both...

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Main Author: Cheng-Chung Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2010-12-01
Series:Pediatrics and Neonatology
Subjects:
newborn intensive care unit
radiation dose
radiation exposure
radiation safety
X-ray
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875957210600617

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