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Correlation between age and head diameters in the paediatric patients during CT examination of the head

Polish Journal of Medical Physics and Engineering
Volume 25 (2019): Issue 4 (December 2019)
By: Arif Fahmi,  Choirul Anam,  Suryono,  Mohd Hanafi Ali and  Arif Jauhari  
Open Access
|Dec 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pjmpe-2019-0030 | Journal eISSN: 1898-0309 | Journal ISSN: 1425-4689
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Language: English
Page range: 229 - 235
Submitted on: Sep 3, 2019
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Accepted on: Oct 15, 2019
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Published on: Dec 26, 2019
Published by: Polish Society of Medical Physics
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
effective diameter,
water-equivalent diameter,
paediatric head,
SSDE
Related subjects:
Medicine,
Biomedical engineering,
Physics,
Technical and applied physics,
Medical physics

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