Re: Reuters article: Portable X-Ray Machine Radiation Dose Is

["JOHN JACOBUS" <JENDAY1@email.msn.com>]

I have always found that in medical health physics, it is important to keep
radiation risks in perspective.  Consider the following statement :

>
> During lengths of stay ranging from 1 to 68 days, patients received
between 1 and 94 portable chest x-rays each. With an average exposure of 10
milliroentgens per x-ray, this translated to an ESE of between 10 and 940
milliroentgens per patient, . . .
>

I bet the risk of cancer for the patient who had 94 portable x-rays was not
one of his worries.

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Medical Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
jjacobus@ors.od.nih.gov (W)
jenday1@email.msn.com (H)




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