Re: Dose Correlation

["Daniel F. Kane" <dankane@mindspring.com>]

Another way to increase the public's understanding is to use the BERT
concept popularized by John Cameron, Ph.D. See"Are X-Rays Safe?" at
www.mindspring.com/~sherouse/MPFAQ/Cameron1.html

This essay comes with 13 refrences and compares medical exposures to
Background Equivalent Radiation Time (BERT). In this concept, a 0.08 mSv
Chest x-ray converts to 10 days of natural background. 


At 01:43 PM 9/24/98 -0500, you wrote:
>In an older issue of RSO magazine, I found an article describing ways in
>which to present and increase the public's understanding of radiation
>topics. The author mentions a comparison to 5 rems of whole body dose as
>equivalent to the amount of energy required to light a 4 watt night light
>for 1 second.
>
>I find this an interesting analogy, but in what way might this be verified?
> 
Daniel F. Kane
Associates in Medical Physics, LLC

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