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On the primary barrier in diagnostic x-ray shielding

R L Dixon1

  • 1Department of Radiology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1088.

Medical Physics
|November 1, 1994
PubMed
Summary

Diagnostic X-ray shielding can be optimized by accounting for attenuation from equipment like tables and grids. This reduces required barrier thickness, potentially altering primary and secondary barrier designs.

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