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Re:When X-Rays were used at the Shoe Store by copperx on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @11:38AM (#24981199)
Aren't CT scans equivalent to about 3,000 chest X-Rays? It sounds pretty bad if you're young.
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Re:When X-Rays were used at the Shoe Store by Teknoman117 on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @01:12PM (#24982256)
Not quite that bad. These days a chest CT scan (~7 mSv) is worth about 70 chest x-rays (0.1 mSv).

That's 2 years (CT) and 10 days (x-ray) of exposure to sea level background radiation respectively.

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