In Focus At RSNA: Imaging Radiation Control, Cancer Risk Questions
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Radiologists announced a commitment at a major annual meeting last week to reduce the overall population radiation exposure from medical imaging, but also emphasized that the actual cancer risk from imaging use remains unclear.
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