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©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email Adult skeletal and dental effective doses Procedure Modality Average effective dose (mSv) Number of chest x-rays (PA/lateral) with equivalent radiation dose* Hand or foot radiograph Conventional radiography 0.001 0.01 Knee radiograph Conventional radiography 0.005 0.05 Intraoral radiograph (restricted view) Conventional radiography 0.005 0.05 Shoulder radiograph Conventional radiography 0.01 0.1 Panoramic radiograph (full mouth view) Conventional radiography 0.01 0.1 Dental CT Computed tomography 0.2 2 Hip radiograph Conventional radiography 0.7 7 Bone scan Nuclear medicine 6.3 63 * PA and lateral chest radiograph = .1 mSv. Data from: Mettler, FA, Huda, W, Yoshizumi, TT, Mahesh, M. Effective doses in radiology and diagnostic nuclear medicine: a catalog. Radiology 2008; 248:254. Smith-Bindman, R, Lipson, J, Marcus, R, et al. Radiation dose associated with common computed tomography examinations and the associated lifetime attributable risk of cancer. Arch Intern Med 2009; 169:2078. Shrimpton, PC, Hillier, MC, Lewis, MA, Dunn, M. National survey of doses from CT in the UK: 2003. Br J Radiol 2006; 79:968.