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The authors prospectively studied the radiation doses to radio-sensitive organs secondary to bedside radiographs in intensive care patients and in a control phantom. Dosimeters were taped on different organs during each bedside X-ray. The mean radiation doses, expressed in 10-5 Gy (m-rad), for an “average patient” who was hospitalized 9 days and had 6 chest X-rays were respectively: 292 to the sternal bone marrow; 239 to the thyroid gland; 3 to the testes; 1 to the ovaries; 605 to the eye for 2 maxillary sinus X-rays. No diffused irradiation was measured during a 2-month period in the intensive care unit nor on dosimeters worn by four nurses.
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Boles, J.M., Boussert, F., Manens, J.P. et al. Measurement of irradiation doses secondary to bedside radiographs in a medical intensive care unit. Intensive Care Med 13, 60–63 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00263560
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