Assessment of Thyroid Cancer Risk After Cervical Computed Tomography: The Impact of Bismuth Shielding

Background: Computed tomography (CT) is vastly applied in X-ray procedures because of its high quality in detecting the anatomical structures of the body. However, it leads to an increase in patient dose, resulting in carcinogenesis. In the head and neck CT, the thyroid is the most important at-risk...

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Published in:	Disease and Diagnosis
Main Authors:	Hamid Ghaznavi, Zeinab Momeni, Sadegh Ghaderi
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences 2021-06-01
Subjects:	thyroid cancer risk cervical ct bismuth shielding beir vii model
Online Access:	https://ddj.hums.ac.ir/PDF/ddj-10-70.pdf