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Advocating for use of the ALARA principle in the context of medical imaging fails to recognize that the risk is hypothetical and so serves to reinforce patients' fears of radiation
Author(s) -
Siegel Jeffry A.,
McCollough Cynthia H.,
Orton Colin G.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1002/mp.12012
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , medical physicist , radiological weapon , medical imaging , medical physics , medicine , medical radiation , dosimetry , nuclear medicine , radiology , history , archaeology