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The issue of radiation dose from X-ray computed tomography (CT) has received much attention recently in both the popular media and scientific literature (1–5). This is in part due to the fact that the dose levels from CT typically exceed those from conventional radiography and fluoroscopy, and that the use of CT continues to grow. Thus, CT contributes a significant portion of the total collective dose from ionizing radiation delivered to the public from medical procedures. It is important, therefore, that physicians ordering or performing these examinations have an understanding of the dose delivered from a cardiac CT, as well as how that amount of radiation compares to those from other imaging procedures that use ionizing radiation.
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McCollough, C.H. (2005). Radiation Dose From CT of the Heart. In: Schoepf, U.J. (eds) CT of the Heart. Contemporary Cardiology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-818-8:063
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