Cohort Profile: the EPI-CT study: A European pooled epidemiological study to quantify the risk of radiation-induced cancer from paediatric CT
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Institutes & Expert groups
- IRSN - Institute for Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety - Institut Radioprotection Sûreté Nucléaire
- Newcastle University - Institute of Health and Society
- IARC - International Agency for Research on Cancer
- CREAL - Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology
- NKI - Netherlands Cancer Institute
- Rigshospitalet - Oncology Clinic - Finsen Center - Late effect Unit
- IMBEI - Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz - Institut für Medizinische Biometrie, Epidemiologie und Informatik
- Cancer Registry of Norway
- NPRA - Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority
- ISGlobal - Barcelona Institute of Global Health
- KI - Karolinska Institutet - ett medicinskt universitet
- DCEG - National Cancer Institute - Devision of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics
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Abstract
Medical diagnostic examinations, although delivering low doses of ionizing radiation, are the main man-made source of ionizing radiation exposure for the general population. The number of procedures performed has grown dramatically in high-income countries in recent decades.1 Among these examinations, the use of computed tomography (CT), a highly informative medical imaging technique, has dramatically increased, partly as a result of the ease and speed of image acquisition improvements over the years. These trends are also observed in paediatric CT, which currently represents approximately 11% of all CT examinations.1
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-10 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | International Journal of Epidemiology (Advance Access published July 31,2007) |
| Volume | 2018 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2 Nov 2018 |
Keywords
- CT, paediatrics, cancer risk
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