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The regulations on the handling of X rays are very similar to the regulations on standard radiation protection. The X-ray regulations in the European Union apply to those X-ray tubes and X-ray installations in which electrons are accelerated at least to 5 keV and in which they are limited to a maximum energy of 1 MeV. All installations in which electrons can be accelerated to energies beyond 1 MeV are subject to the regulations of standard radiation protection.
“In the end, the public’s health is at stake. An underexposed chest x-ray cannot reveal pneumonia, and an inaccurate radiation therapy treatment cannot stop the spread of cancer.”
Charles W. Pickering
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Grupen, C. (2010). X Rays and X-Ray Regulations. In: Introduction to Radiation Protection. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02586-0_10
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