Radiation Exposure From Medical Tests

Understanding Radiation Risk from Imaging Tests

https://www.cancer.org/treatment/understanding-your-diagnosis/tests/understanding-radiation-risk-from-imaging-tests.html

In large doses, radiation can cause serious tissue damage and increase a person’s risk of later developing cancer. The low doses of radiation used for imaging tests might increase a person’s cancer risk slightly, but it’s important to put this risk into perspective. …

Radiation risk from medical imaging - Harvard Health

https://www.health.harvard.edu/cancer/radiation-risk-from-medical-imaging

Radiation sickness - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/radiation-sickness/symptoms-causes/syc-20377058

Radiation sickness is also called acute radiation syndrome or radiation poisoning. Radiation sickness is not caused by common imaging tests that use low …

Radiation Exposure From Medical Exams and …

https://hps.org/documents/Medical_Exposures_Fact_Sheet.pdf

Radiation Exposure From Medical Exams and Procedures Ionizing radiation* is used daily in hospitals and clinics to perform diagnostic imaging exams and medical inter …