how much radition is in chest xrays, knee xrays, upper gis and angiogram s and ulrasound?ive had 2-3 knee xrays 1 gallbladder ultasound 1 upper gi 1 angiogram i think it is called and 7-8 chest xrays this year how much is that i am nervious.Thanks.
2006-12-19 17:16:18 · 5 answers · asked by forrealnews 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
angiogram or something they put this crap in your veins and takes veiws
2006-12-19 17:20:55 · update #1
Modern X-ray machines use very little power, and the techs who run them are trained to use the minimum amount of radiation necessary to obtain the needed result.
A typical chest X-ray exposes you to about 0.1 mSv (milliSieverts, a measure of the effective dose from ionizing radiation like X-rays). By way of comparision, all of us receive a dose of about 3 mSv every year just from naturally occurring background radiation (even more than that if we fly a lot or live in Colorado or New Mexico).
The dose from a single chest X-ray is the same as what you would get just from the environment in about 10 days.
Ultrasound does not involve radiation at all -- it uses sound waves to produce images.
It sounds like you've had a lot of diagnostic imaging, but you really don't have much to worry about. The risk is very low, and the diagnostic benefits are very high.
2006-12-19 17:32:34 · answer #1 · answered by Mark H 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Firstly ultrasounds use sound only, unless you are made out of glass there is nothing to worry about there. Secondly an Angiogram is a passive test that uses no radiation at all. Now as for x-rays, many people believe that because x-rays can pass through tissue that they are bad, and alot of x-rays will kill, however medical x-rays are not CUMULATIVE. What that means is that the effect of medical x-rays will not add to cause a problem. Unless you had an x-ray machine that was hooked up directly to a nuclear reactor there will not have been enough power in the x-rays to cause damage. It would take over 100 medical x-rays taken in quick succession on one part of the body to cause lasing damage. Hope this helps to alleviate your fears and good luck with the medical stuff.
2006-12-20 01:30:11 · answer #2 · answered by Arthur N 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not to much . i had xray radiation treatments 5 times a week
20 min. each time for 2 months
2006-12-20 01:27:47 · answer #3 · answered by barry r 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My dear Mother got a lot of x rays and got lung cancer. she never smoked in her life and she died.X Rays cause cancer. its a fact.
2006-12-20 01:27:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionizing_radiation
2006-12-20 01:37:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋