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Niobium/aluminum filters reduce patient exposure
C B Burns1, J B Renner, P Gratale
1School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Department of Medical Allied Health Professions, Chapel Hill.
Radiologic Technology
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Reducing patient exposure while maintaining image quality is key to radiographers. In a comparison study of different filters, the authors found that a combined niobium/aluminum filter provides substantial reduction of entrance skin exposure with fairly small increases in tube loading and little loss of image contrast.