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Radiography in Modern Industry - Kodak

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espectively. In other words, a constant <strong>in</strong>crease <strong>in</strong> the logarithm of a number means a constantpercentage <strong>in</strong>crease <strong>in</strong> the number itself.Photographic DensityPhotographic density refers to the quantitative measure of film blacken<strong>in</strong>g. When no danger ofconfusion exists, photographic density is usually spoken of merely as density. Density is def<strong>in</strong>edby the equation:where D is density, I o is the light <strong>in</strong>tensity <strong>in</strong>cident on the film and It is the light <strong>in</strong>tensitytransmitted.The tabulation below illustrates some relations between transmittance, percent transmittance,opacity, and density.This table shows that an <strong>in</strong>crease <strong>in</strong> density of 0.3 reduces the light transmitted to one-half itsformer value. In general, s<strong>in</strong>ce density is a logarithm, a certa<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>crease <strong>in</strong> density alwayscorresponds to the same percentage decrease <strong>in</strong> transmittance.1.0 100 1 00.50 50 2 0.30.25 25 4 0.60.10 10 10 1.00.01 1 100 2.00.001 0.1 1,000 3.00.0001 0.01 10,000 4.0DensitometersA densitometer is an <strong>in</strong>strument for measur<strong>in</strong>g photographic densities. A number of differenttypes, both visual and photoelectric, are available commercially. For purposes of practical<strong>in</strong>dustrial radiography, there is no great premium on high accuracy of a densitometer. A muchmore important property is reliability, that is, the densitometer should reproduce read<strong>in</strong>gs fromday to day.X-Ray Exposure ChartsAn exposure chart is a graph show<strong>in</strong>g the relation between material thickness, kilovoltage, andexposure. In its must common form, an exposure chart resembles Figure 44. These graphs areadequate for determ<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g exposures <strong>in</strong> the radiography of uniform plates, but they serve only asrough guides for objects, such as complicated cast<strong>in</strong>gs, hav<strong>in</strong>g wide variations of thickness.<strong>Radiography</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Modern</strong> <strong>Industry</strong> 65

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