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. 1995 May;68(5):704-9.
doi: 10.1097/00004032-199505000-00011.

Transmission data for shielding diagnostic x-ray facilities

D J Simpkin  1
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Transmission data for shielding diagnostic x-ray facilities

D J Simpkin. Health Phys. 1995 May.

Abstract

Recently published exposure transmission curves for broad diagnostic x-ray beams in lead, concrete, gypsum wallboard, steel, plate glass, and wood have been used to calculate the transmission in 5 kVp increments over the 25 to 35 kVp range for molybdenum-anode tubes and 50 to 150 kVp for tungsten-anode tubes. The data are fit to a three parameter model for ease in calculating the x-ray transmission with computers or calculators.

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