Radiation Shielding of Multiple X-ray Sources in Diagnostic Radiology
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Health Physics
- Vol. 50 (1) , 117-122
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00004032-198601000-00011
Abstract
A unified approach to the problem of barrier thickness calculations for diagnostic x-ray rooms containing multiple x-ray tubes emitting primary, scatter, and leakage radiation is presented. Given the reasonable constraint that all x-ray tubes in a room operate at the same maximum potential (kVp), the required barrier thickness is determined completely and accurately from a single transcendental equation relating the Kux and BLx values calculated for each radiation source separately. A useful approximation to this is discussed and examples given.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: