{"id":1813,"date":"2020-09-24T08:48:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T06:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2020-10-20T21:43:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:43:23","slug":"how-much-radiation-do-i-get-with-a-mammogram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/how-much-radiation-do-i-get-with-a-mammogram\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How much radiation do I get with a mammogram?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The answer is &#8216;very limited&#8217;, but wouldn&#8217;t you like to know &#8216;how much&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>The doctor may specify that the dose equals 0.13 milliSieverts, but this does not provide a clear picture of exactly what the charge is. Wouldn&#8217;t it be much better to know that either you just exist for 13 days, or you do a mammogram, the radiation you receive is the same?<\/p>\n<p>According to a very useful article by Costas Kappas, Professor of Medical Physics &#8211; Radiophysics at the University of Thessaly Department of Medicine, the radiation we receive in imaging exams can be compared to the dose we receive in our daily living environment.<\/p>\n<p><em>For example, a patient who does a chest X-ray is charged with 0.02 mSv equivalent to the radiation she will receive in 2 days simply because she is alive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Applying this method, called B.E.R.T., facilitates the patient to understand in daily terms how much radiation s\/he is exposed with each examination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The answer is &#8216;very limited&#8217;, but wouldn&#8217;t you like to know &#8216;how much&#8217;? The doctor may specify that the dose equals 0.13 milliSieverts, but this does not provide a clear picture of exactly what the charge is. Wouldn&#8217;t it be much better to know that either you just exist for 13 days, or you do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gynecology","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgenikolopoulos.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}