15. Medical imaging physics with Zoe Brady and Matt Skalski
The Radiopaedia Reading Room Podcast
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The Linear Non-Threshold Model for Radiation Protection
It's really hard to place the shielding in exactly the right spot so that you're not obscuring anatomy. And more importantly, with our newer technology and things like automatic exposure control, if the shielding is in the wrong spot, it will end up driving up your dose. But at the low doses that we're talking about for diagnostic imaging, that risk benefit equation no longer falls on the side of using shielding.
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