Website allows users to calculate radiation exposure during scans.

Website allows users to calculate radiation exposure during scans.

In her column in Chicago's Daily Herald (2/24), Anna Marie Kukec wrote that "[s]ome medical groups" have expressed "concerns over radiation exposure" during scans. This "led American Imaging Management, a subsidiary of WellPoint Inc., last week to launch a website" that "helps calculate radiation exposure and explains results." The site allows users to calculate the "millisivert measurement of radiation dosage" by "type of scan." The company, which "is a subsidiary of WellPoint Inc.," plans to "introduc[e] an educational campaign with physicians to raise awareness of radiation issues related to imaging in order to promote more informed decision making between physicians and their patients across the country."