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Every time you get an X-ray how much radiation are you exposed to?​

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The average for a chest X-ray is 0.1 mSv
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To put it simply, the amount of radiation from one adult chest x-ray (0.1 mSv) is about the same as 10 days of natural background radiation that we are all exposed to as part of our daily living.

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