Not a radiologist but I believe that all commercial ionizing radiation sources in the UK would come under the same regulations whether it is for human or animal use, the industrial regulatory legislation is covered by the;
Health and Safety Executive UK - Ionising Radiation Regulations 2017
and
Theratom/European Union - Basic Safety Standards Directive 2013
It is true that in the UK we absorb around 2.2 mSv every year from ānatural background radiationā, to put that into context a chest x-ray is 0.02 mSv so about a 3 or 4 days worth and yes a transatlantic flight exposes you to around 0.1 mSv so around 5 chest x-rays.
Thatās not really the point though, the point is which parts of the body do you specifically want to avoid bombarding with ionizing radiation as not all human tissue absorbs or is affected by radiation the same. An easy answer is essentially the internal organs but if you are a guy then your testes are most at risk followed by (in descending order of weighting factor which represents the sensitivity of each tissue to radiation);
Now kids, what have we learnt? I donāt know what the mSv dose of a veterinarian X-ray machine will be but I highly doubt its more than a chest x-ray however if you wear adequate protection such as a lead apron and your vet friend appropriately directs the particle beam then I donāt really see a problem with a couple of hand X-rays.
right right rightā¦ okā¦ so yeah ā¦ uh noā¦ nothing new to report on thatā¦ my finger is healing up but still no light is visibleā¦ but as far as making more of themā¦ its likeā¦ the backest of burners right nowā¦ so much other awesome stuff going on sorry
that makes things easier to follow
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