{"id":94117,"date":"2022-03-14T18:07:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T18:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/?p=94117"},"modified":"2022-03-14T18:07:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T18:07:33","slug":"which-diagnostic-scan-gives-some-of-the-highest-radiation-doses-in-diagnostic-radiography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/which-diagnostic-scan-gives-some-of-the-highest-radiation-doses-in-diagnostic-radiography\/","title":{"rendered":"Which diagnostic scan gives some of the highest radiation doses in diagnostic radiography ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A. CT-Scan<\/strong><br \/>\nB. Ultrasound<br \/>\nC. MRI<br \/>\nD. X-Ray<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explanation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most of the increased exposure in the United States is due to\u00a0<b>CT scanning and nuclear imaging<\/b>, which require larger radiation doses than traditional x-rays. A chest x-ray, for example, delivers 0.1 mSv, while a chest CT delivers 7 mSv (see the table) \u2014 70 times as much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A. CT-Scan B. Ultrasound C. MRI D. X-Ray Explanation: Most of the increased exposure in the United States is due to\u00a0CT scanning and nuclear imaging, which require larger radiation doses than traditional x-rays. A chest x-ray, for example, delivers 0.1 mSv, while a chest CT delivers 7 mSv (see the table) \u2014 70 times as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,6],"tags":[26675,27333],"class_list":{"0":"post-94117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-biology-mcqs","8":"category-nts","9":"tag-biology","10":"tag-nts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prepistan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}