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Editorial
. 2020 May;295(2):428-429.
doi: 10.1148/radiol.2020200200. Epub 2020 Mar 17.

Medical Radiation Exposure to the U.S. Population: The Turning Tide

Andrew J Einstein  1
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Editorial

Medical Radiation Exposure to the U.S. Population: The Turning Tide

Andrew J Einstein. Radiology. 2020 May.
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Andrew Einstein is a cardiologist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where he serves as tenured associate professor of medicine (in radiology), director of cardiac CT research, and co-director of cardiac CT and MRI. His clinical work focuses on cardiac imaging and clinical cardiology, and his research, which has been funded by numerous NIH grants and the IAEA, focuses on medical imaging and patient safety.
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