Use of tungsten sheet as an alternative for reducing the radiation dose behind the digital imaging plate during intra-oral radiography.

CONCLUSIONS: Tungsten sheet appeared to be effective as an alternative shielding material, sufficiently reducing the doses behind the SPP packets to less than 20% when compared with sheetless packets in all of the six sites examined.
PMID: 30028195 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Dentomaxillofacial Radiology - July 22, 2018 Category: Radiology Tags: Dentomaxillofac Radiol Source Type: research