... , and especially infants, have the highest risk of developing radiation induced malignancy due to the rapid reproduction of cells relative to their longer life expectancy. Indeed, "children are roughly an order of magnitude more sensitive to radiation than middle-aged adults." (Willis ... Digital Radiology) Practitioners unwittingly compound this problem where an estimated one million CR images per day are being produced. (Harris, 2000) Ease of acquisition has inadvertently caused a two-fold problem in radiology departments: one) a trend exists where more images than necessary are ... f...

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