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:

Jeffry A. Siegel; Cynthia H. McCollough; Colin G. Orton

doi:10.1002/mp.12012

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:

Jeffry A. Siegel, Cynthia H. McCollough, Colin G. Orton

Radiation Physicists

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Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	3-6
Number of pages	4
Journal	Medical physics
Volume	44
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.12012
State	Published - Jan 2017

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Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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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: / Siegel, Jeffry A.; McCollough, Cynthia H.; Orton, Colin G.
In: Medical physics, Vol. 44, No. 1, 01.2017, p. 3-6.

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