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What is a half-value layer?

Updated: 12/14/2022
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Some previously called a half-value thickness or half-value layer a half-thickness. Whatever an investigator calls it, the half-value layer is the thickness a layer of a given material would have to be to reduce the intensity of radiation striking its surface by half (50%).

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