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Re: Mammography Doses
The "mean glandular dose" from a mammogram is less than 300 mrad, and
typically in the order of 150-200.
Doses for diagnostic exams fall in the category of the 'benefit far
exceeds the risk" and therefore are not regulated. One is faced with the
not too obvious (to the patient) explanation that the effects from such a
dose are not measureable and no more than roughly the effects during your
lifetime of external background radiation.
The doses, either as mean glandular dose or ESE'sfor diagnostic
procedures, should be known for the 'typical exams'.