The influence of tube filtration and potential on patient dose during X-ray examinations
- 1 October 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Physics in Medicine & Biology
- Vol. 33 (10), 1205-1212
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/33/10/009
Abstract
Presents some results of mathematical modelling of patient dose arising from common X-ray projections. Values of effective dose equivalent calculated for ranges of applied potential and total beam filtration are expressed relative to entrance surface dose and to a constant dose in the image receptor plane. Such dose information is essential to the optimisation of X-ray procedures.Keywords
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