[ RadSafe ] Annual medical exposure 10 times higher than Chernobyl 1st-year exposure

[Muckerheide, James]

Friends,

 

We received the following quote from our friend Klaus Becker.

 

Regards, Jim Muckerheide

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>From Dieter Regulla and H. Eder, in Radiat. Protect. Dosimetry 114/1-3,
11-25, 2005, "Patient exposure in medical X-ray imaging in Europe." 

 

"The collective effective doses of the 1997 annual medical exposure is almost
a factor of 10 higher than the Chernobyl first-year exposure."