CT Urography : Efforts to Reduce the Radiation Dose

CT Urography : Efforts to Reduce the Radiation Dose

Computed tomography urography (CTU) is today the imaging method used to investigate patients with suspected urinary tract malignancy, replacing the old imaging method intravenous pyelography (IVP) about a decade ago. The downside of this shift was that the effective radiation dose to the examined pa...

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Main Author: Dahlman, Pär
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Enheten för radiologi 2011
Subjects:
Urinary tract malignancy
renal cell carcinoma
urography
x-ray computed tomography
radiation dosage
dose escalation
hematuria/diagnosis
Diagnostic radiology
Diagnostisk radiologi
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