ACR President Featured in LA Times Article on Baby Sent Through Airport X-Ray Machine

ACR President James P. Borgstede, M.D., discusses radiation concerns in a December 20 Los Angeles Times article regarding a baby which was sent through an X-ray machine at a Los Angeles airport.

“Rather than focus on the radiation dose, which is a small amount, we need to focus on why this happened, so it doesn’t happen again,” Borgstede said in the article. “Human beings weren’t meant to go through those things.”

He added, “In the several seconds the baby spent in the machine, he was exposed to as much radiation as he would naturally get from cosmic rays — or high energy from outer space — in a day.”

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