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Normalized Organ Doses in Tables

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In this section, tables of normalized organ doses for conventional radiographs are listed that have been published thus far to the knowledge of the authors. The literature listings comprise tables and single publications to normalized organ doses in conventional radiology (Tables 29.1, 29.2, 29.3 and 29.4).

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Seidenbusch, M., Rösenberger, V., Schneider, K. (2019). Normalized Organ Doses in Tables. In: Imaging Practice and Radiation Protection in Pediatric Radiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18504-6_29

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