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Crohn’s Disease: Minimizing Radiation Dose

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Abdominal Imaging

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Abstract

There is increasing awareness of high cumulative ionizing radiation exposure in patients with Crohn’s disease (CD). We outline the principle causes for concern and the subgroups of Crohn’s patients at risk of greatest cumulative dose. We present a practical approach to radiation dose reduction in Crohn’s patients with a focus on evolving CT Technology. This chapter will inform the reader why radiation dose should be reduced in CD patients and will indicate how this task can be approached in clinical practice.

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  1. University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

    Patrick McLaughlin, Siobhan B. O’Neill, Owen J. O’Connor, Fergus Shanahan & Dr. Michael Maher

  2. Department of Abdominal Imaging and Intervention, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Owen J. O’Connor

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  1. Department of Radiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Bernd Hamm

  2. Department of Radiology, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Pablo R. Ros

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McLaughlin, P., O’Neill, S.B., O’Connor, O.J., Shanahan, F., Maher, M. (2013). Crohn’s Disease: Minimizing Radiation Dose. In: Hamm, B., Ros, P.R. (eds) Abdominal Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13327-5_219

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