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PCXMC - Chest, adult patient

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Figure 3. A comparison of the organ dose conversion factors  calculated by PCXMC with the data of Jones and Wall (1985 , NRPB data with error bars) and Hart et al. (1994b, NRPB data without error bars). All doses correspond to an entrance air kerma (free-in-air) of 1 Gy. Adult patient, chest examination, PA projection, x-ray tube voltage 120 kV, filtration 3 mm Al, 17o x-ray tube anode angle.  The error bars shown correspond to two standard errors of the data.

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