Mary Chris Jaklevic

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No shield from x-rays: How science is rethinking lead aprons
CHICAGO - 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.
January 15, 2020
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