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Reduce the dose without compromising diagnosis and therapy. Really?
Hildegard Kaulen
Varying dose values
Different requirements call for different dose reduction solutions in computed tomography and angiography.
The ALARA principle
Hardware solutions
Software solutions
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Hildegard Kaulen, PhD, is a molecular biologist. Following positions at Rockefeller University in New York and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, she now works as a freelance science journalist for newspapers and scientific magazines.
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