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Monday, November 30, 2009

C.T Scan (Cat Scan)

A C.T. scan gives you 500 times the amount of radiation then a regular X-Ray does.

Time for equivalent effective dose from natural background radiation
Chest X-ray 2.4 days
CAT head 243 days
CAT abdomen 3.3 years
Coronary angiogram 1.1 years
64-slice CAT (male) 5.1 years
64-slice CAT (female) 7.1 years
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