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Jun 11, 2009 | Posted by: roboblogger

Heart Radiation Test Can Be Cut By 50%

Full story: EMaxHealth

The radiation dose for a diagnostic scan of the heart and blood vessels was cut on average by more than half for almost 5,000 patients through a Michigan quality improvement project with no effect on image quality.

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