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- •A correlation between backscatter factors, Bw, and Al-HVL was investigated using the quality index, QI as a parameter.
- •Values of Bw for x-ray spectra were calculated from the weighted average of Bw for monoenergetic photons.
- •The weighted averaged Bw for x-ray spectra agreed within 0.7% with those of direct Monte Carlo calculations.
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