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Review
. 2004 Mar 6;328(7439):578-80.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.328.7439.578.

Sustainability of medical imaging

Eugenio Picano  1
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Review

Sustainability of medical imaging

Eugenio Picano. BMJ. .

Abstract

Doctors and patients should be more aware of the long term risks of radiological investigations

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3 Dimensional reconstruction of child's head from computed tomography data Credit: PHILLIPPE PLAILLY/SPL
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Medical and natural sources of radiation
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Attributable lifetime risk for a single small dose of radiation according to age at time of exposure. Radiogenic cancers have long latency periods, and the model may therefore overestimate the risk of fatal cancer in a population with a skewed age distribution, such as radiology or nuclear medicine patients
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