Assessment of the efficiency of new bismuth composite shields in radiation dose decline to breast during chest CT

Background: Bismuth shield has been recently introduced for radiation protection of patient radiosensitive organs such as breast during chest CT with image diagnosis capability. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the dose reduction and image quality conserve using new bismuth-silicon composit...

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Main Authors: Parinaz Mehnati, Reza Malekzadeh, Mohammad Yousefi Sooteh, Soheila Refahi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-12-01
Series:The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378603X18301566