Radiology (X-RAY VISION) with Varshana Gurusamy
Ologies with Alie Ward
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What's the Risk of Radiation?
I know like people always worry about getting exposed to radiation when they get a chest x-ray or a CT scan. But when you think about what you're exposed to daily, it's not that much. And we're talking about milli severts and one sever it would be a 5.5% chance of getting cancer. So I like a cross country flight in an airplane is like 0.03 milli severTS or something like that. That's like the background radiation that you would get.
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