Mahadevappa Mahesh, PhD, associate professor of radiology in the Russell H. Morgan department of radiology and radiological science, and associate professor of medicine, division of cardiology, at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. Dr. Mahesh is chief physicist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, also in Baltimore, and one of the authors of the National Council of Radiation Protection’s report “Ionizing Radiation Exposure of the Population of the United States” — published in March. He is the author of the textbook Multiple-Row Detector Computed Tomography Physics: The Basics — Technology, Image Quality and Radiation Dose (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins).
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