Banana equivalent doses assume that the radiation is distributed over the body. This is true for backscatter and other nonspecific radiation. It is not true f

Banana equivalent doses assume that the radiation is distributed over the body. This is true for backscatter and other nonspecific radiation. It is not true for collimated radiation such as an x-ray. One explanation for "cell phone cancer" is that people who have annual dental radiographs have develop neuromas which are then (probably incorrectly) blamed on cell phones. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23211211 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23211211