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Archive > December, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 12

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Reduce Radiation Exposure

With more pain procedures came higher dosimetry readings. We were already employing the basic standards for radiation protection — including lead vests with thyroid shields, lead glasses, collimation and orientation of the X-ray tube below the pain table — and yet our physicians had reached 75 percent of the quarterly radiation dose limit.

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