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An inexpensive kVp penetrameter
Author(s) -
Ghilardi Netto Thomaz,
Cameron John R.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.595716
Subject(s) - medical imaging , simple (philosophy) , medical physics , computer science , nuclear medicine , artificial intelligence , medicine , philosophy , epistemology
In this report we describe an improvement upon the design by Stanton and Lightfoot for a simple photographic null method to determine the kVp of a diagnostic region x‐ray source. The new version has two primary advantages over the Ardran and Crooks design in that it is both simpler and less expensive to produce.