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News • Radiation protection
X-ray shielding: Why lead aprons may be a thing of the past
Patients have come to expect a technician to drape their torsos with a heavy lead apron when they get an X-ray, but new thinking among radiologists and medical physicists is upending the decades-old practice of shielding patients from radiation.