Abstract: With the widely application of the X-ray, the radiation carcinogenesis to the medical workers attracts more and more people′s attention. Accurate radiation carcinogenesis dose-response assessment is based on complete personal dose information. But early in the application of X-ray, there are no personal dose information of medical X-ray workers, so it needs dose reconstruction to estimate the early personal dose information. The dose estimation status and progress of early medical diagnostic X-ray workers at home and abroad paper were reviewed in this paper.