Category Archives: Significant Experiments

This experiment is part 3 in my series on lead aprons and will show that the average lead apron we use to protect ourselves and our patient’s are supposed to protect against scatter radiation only.  You will quickly see why these aprons should never be put in a primary beam.

This experiment will be the second in a series about lead aprons. As you may recall from the last Significant Experiment; there was never a point that the .25 was better than the .375 or that the .375 was better than the .5. But the ion chamber was placed less

For quite a while I’ve heard about techs in some states who actually hold the IR for exposures, especially on cross table work. All I can say about this is: DON”T DO IT – EVER!!!   The radiation dose you’ll get holding the IR is extreme. Obviously the more mAs that’s used the more scatter that’s created.

Back in March I wrote a blog about grid cut-off in the digital world. It explained things, but in a 1 page article there wasn’t room to put in the images and photos needed to really prove the points I was making. Here I have all the space I need