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translate this into terms of dose, including the effect
of scattered soft radiation from the higher energy lines in
the spectrum,

the percentage of the dose is still in the

neighborhood of 16 or 17 per cent.

The T-1-B cutoff, I

have approximated as best I could with data which were taken
in our laboratory,

both recently and

a couple of years ago.

The sensitivity falls down quite strongly at a range a@
60-50 KV.

But evan making a generous estimate of the

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correction factor,

energy region, the overall correction factor for the T-1-B

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seems to be close enough to unity within the limits af the

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error we can specify here.

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accepted as being accurate.

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in this region is small, I do not think that we need to consi

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that it. departed materially from the total doses estimates

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we have here.

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three general ranges of energy.

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region of about 17 per cent.

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the 600 to 800 KV region of perhaps 50 per cent.

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