Infrared Imaging Better than Touch at Detecting Defects in Protective Lead Aprons (VIDEO)

Children's National Hospital

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Stanley Thomas Fricke, Nucl. Eng., Ph.D., radiation safety officer at Children’s National Health System, explains how infrared light can penetrate a lead apron’s protective outer fabric and illuminate defects that are smaller than the defect size now used to reject a protective apron.

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