Re: CAT Scan dosage

[michael_coogen@hq.dla.mil]

     Your original CT certification and acceptance of performance of X-Ray 
     tube output should give you or should be able to calculate the mR/mAs, 
     depending on the technique factors (mA and kVp) for lung scan..mike 
     coogen sends


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Subject: CAT Scan dosage
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu at Internet
Date:    9/5/97 10:28 AM


Good Morning -
     
Does anyone have any information on what sort of dosage you can receive 
when you undergo a CAT scan?  As a guess, probubly 40-45 slices.
     
This is to determine the size of a spot on the lung.
     
     
     
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