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Author: Benjamin C. Wedro, MD, FAAEM
Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD
Previous contributing authors and editors:
Author: John R Cameron, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Departments of Medical Physics,
Radiology and Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Visiting Professor,
Departments of Radiation Oncology and Physics, University of Florida.
Editors: Scott H Plantz, MD, FAAEM,
Research Director, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount
Sinai School of Medicine; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy
Editor, eMedicine; Jerry Balentine, DO, Professor of Emergency Medicine, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine; Medical Director, Saint Barnabas Hospital.
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2. National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement. Exposure of the US population from diagnostic radiation. 1989. NCRP Report.
Last Editorial Review: 3/16/2009
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