Heart, Lung and Circulation
Volume 17, Issue 3 , Pages 224-231 , June 2008

Measures of Radiation Exposure in Cardiac Imaging and the Impact of Case Complexity

  • Ian R. Smith, MAppSc

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Physical Sciences, St. Andrew's War Memorial Hospital, GPO Box 764, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia. Tel.: +61 7 3834 4283; fax: +61 7 3834 4338.
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  • John T. Rivers, FRACP

Received 12 June 2007 ,Revised 27 August 2007 ,Accepted 29 October 2007.

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