Had a general physician recently recommend a CT scan on my neck to check soft tissue for source of a curious pain. I resisted this due to recent reading on the radiation levels of these things. As a point of comparison, one chest CT is around 10 millisieverts of radiation and a traditional chest X-ray only 0.02 millisieverts. That's 500 times the radiation of an X ray !
(Alternatively I went to a specialist who performed endoscopy and gave me the all clear via that method)
Now, having said all that, if you read something like this...
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it doesn't seem so bad really. So, just wondering what the physicians on this forum might think based on the latest CT scan info ?
Also, if one had a CT scan on the abdomen area and then neck area within 12 month period, would overall radiation disease risk be calculated differently from, for example, two CT scans in abdomen area within 12 months ? (but no scan of neck area)
(Alternatively I went to a specialist who performed endoscopy and gave me the all clear via that method)
Now, having said all that, if you read something like this...
Google Answers: CT Scan radiation dose
it doesn't seem so bad really. So, just wondering what the physicians on this forum might think based on the latest CT scan info ?
Also, if one had a CT scan on the abdomen area and then neck area within 12 month period, would overall radiation disease risk be calculated differently from, for example, two CT scans in abdomen area within 12 months ? (but no scan of neck area)