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Radiation and CBCT

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Things to know<br />

The ICRP - International Commission of Radiological<br />

Protection.<br />

ICRP has recently revised the tissue weighting<br />

factors <strong>and</strong> have included the salivary gl<strong>and</strong>s <strong>and</strong> the<br />

brain as a weighted tissue (remember: tissue<br />

weighting x equivalent dose = effective dose.<br />

Old effective doses were from 1990 new doses are<br />

from the 2007 recommendations.

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