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To: skinowski who wrote (341043)	1/2/2010 3:50:43 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

According to them, if radiation received from a regular Chest Xray is "1", then Calcium score study is 20-40, a diagnostic Coronary angiography is 200-500, and a coronary CT angiogram is 700-2100. Those are significant numbers And they are wrong. At least they err on the high side, hopefully keeping Doctors from overscanning patients. Using a GE Lightspeed 64 slicer, if a Chest X-ray is "1", a Calcium score study on it is "4". If they use the latest software, that reduces to "2". These numbers are all over the place because there are so many different machines of different capabilities out there. Plus, there are a lot of techs that don't know what they are doing. Don't let anybody scan you on less than a 64 slice CT, or an EBT machine. There are still a lot of 8,16 and 32 slice machines being used.