Radiology (X-RAY VISION) with Varshana Gurusamy
Ologies with Alie Ward
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Radiation Dose - What Is It?
The background radiation that you're exposed to just by living and doing your daily activities is about three milli severts. But in the case of airport scanners, it's said that they're about 0.02 micro severts per scan. It turns out the technicians were just measuring them wrong. They took 10 measurements and a lot of them forgot to divide by 10.
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