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Is “cumulative” defined as a life-time dose?

April 26, 2017cumulative defined dose life-time

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Is “cumulative” defined as a life-time dose?

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No; monitoring “life-time dose” is neither practical nor necessary with respect to fluoroscopic procedures. While tissue damage from radiation is dependent on the total (cumulative) dose delivered over time, we recognize that skin sensitivity is, to a degree, repairable and that monitoring cumulative dose over a period of six months to a year would be reasonable.