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7 × 10 ^ −1: Acute-Mammogram [7] 1 1 × 10 ^ 0: Annual: 0.11: Limit of dose from man-made sources to a member of the public who is not a radiation worker in the US and Canada [6] [9] 1.1 1.1 × 10 ^ 0: Annual: 0.13: Average USA radiation worker occupational dose in 1980 [6] 1.2 1.2 × 10 ^ 0: Acute-Abdominal X-ray [7] 2 2 × 10 ^ 0: Annual ...
The average radiation dose from an abdominal X-ray is 0.7 millisieverts (0.0007 Sv), that from an abdominal CT scan is 8 mSv, that from a pelvic CT scan is 6 mGy, and that from a selective CT scan of the abdomen and the pelvis is 14 mGy. [7]
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The rep has variously been defined as 83 or 93 ergs per gram of tissue (8.3/9.3 mGy) [13] or per cc of tissue. [14] In 1953 the ICRU recommended the rad, equal to 100 erg/g as a new unit of absorbed radiation, [15] but then promoted a switch to the gray in the 1970s.
The computed tomography dose index (CTDI) is a commonly used radiation exposure index in X-ray computed tomography (CT), first defined in 1981. [1] [2] The unit of CTDI is the gray (Gy) and it can be used in conjunction with patient size to estimate the absorbed dose.
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