Effects of Aluminum-Copper Alloy Filtration on Photon Spectra, Air Kerma Rate and Image Contrast

Effects of Aluminum-Copper Alloy Filtration on Photon Spectra, Air Kerma Rate and Image Contrast

Andréa GONÇALVES^1, João Manuel Domingos de Almeida ROLLO^2, Marcelo GONÇALVES^1, Francisco HAITER NETO^3, Frab Norberto BÓSCOLO³

¹Department of Oral Diagnosis and Dentomaxillofacial Surgery, Division of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology, Araraquara Dental School, Unesp, Araraquara, SP, Brazil;²Department of Engineering Materials, São Carlos Engineering School, USP, São Carlos, SP, Brazil; ³Department of Oral Diagnosis, Division of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology, Piracicaba Dental School, Unicamp, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil

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