A Blog designed to capture various facts, concepts and figures about the practice of medical physics.
Originally focused on study for the ABR board exams.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Lead Thickness and electrons
The thickness of the lead cutout you would use with a 10 MeV electron is about:
5mm
Electron absorption is about 2 MeV/CM of unit density material (water) and 10 times less for lead so 2MeV/mm for lead.
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