Are there risks of radiation exposure?
Our protocols are built to insure the lowest dose possible, minimizing risk to non-calculable levels. The breast tissue in the chest CT study is exposed to no more radiation than a mammogram (or simply living in Denver for six months!). Our low dose technique for the full body exam produces 1/2 to 1/3 of the exposure of a conventional CT study, of which, more than 30 million are ordered yearly by doctors in the U.S. for known medical problems.
InAdvance Health Imaging employs a special low-dose protocol to minimize radiation exposure. The exposure is less than that employed in a conventional CT scan, of which 30,000,000 are performed in the United States annually8. The dose can be quantified as being similar to that of smoking 1.4 cigarettes over the course of a lifetime, or analogous to the radiation a citizen of Denver, Colorado would get over several months just from living at home at high altitude9.
