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Radiography in Modern Industry - Kodak

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of the specimen and the kilovoltage. When these conditions exist, the exposure chart may take asimplified form as shown <strong>in</strong> Figure 45, which allows the kilovoltage for any particular specimenthickness to be chosen readily. Such a chart will probably be particularly useful when uniformsections must be radiographed <strong>in</strong> large numbers by relatively untra<strong>in</strong>ed persons. This type ofexposure chart may be derived from a chart similar to Figure 44 by follow<strong>in</strong>g the horizontal l<strong>in</strong>ecorrespond<strong>in</strong>g to the chosen milliampere-m<strong>in</strong>ute value and not<strong>in</strong>g the thickness correspond<strong>in</strong>g tothis exposure for each kilovoltage. These thicknesses are then plotted aga<strong>in</strong>st kilovoltage.Figure 45: Typical exposure chart for use when exposure and distance are held constantand kilovoltage is varied to conform to specimen thickness. Film X (Figure 47 forexample), exposed with lead foil screens to a density of 1.5. Source-film distance, 40<strong>in</strong>ches; exposure, 50 mA-m<strong>in</strong>.Gamma-Ray Exposure ChartsThe figure below shows a typical gamma-ray exposure chart. It is somewhat similar to the next toFigure 46.However, with gamma rays, there is no variable factor correspond<strong>in</strong>g to the kilovoltage.Therefore, a gamma-ray exposure chart conta<strong>in</strong>s one l<strong>in</strong>e, or several parallel l<strong>in</strong>es, each of whichcorresponds to a particular film type, film density, or source-film distance. Gamma-ray exposureguides are also available <strong>in</strong> the form of l<strong>in</strong>ear or circular slide rules. These conta<strong>in</strong> scales onwhich can be set the various factors of specimen thickness, source strength and source-filmdistance, and from which exposure time can be read directly.Slid<strong>in</strong>g scales can also be applied to gamma-ray exposure charts of the type <strong>in</strong> the figure belowto simplify some exposure determ<strong>in</strong>ations. For the preparation and use of such scales, see"Slid<strong>in</strong>g Scales For Exposure Charts".<strong>Radiography</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Modern</strong> <strong>Industry</strong> 68

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