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Skin dose comparison between a real patient and anthropometrically matched hybrid patient dependent phantom (view is posterior). [Reprinted with permission from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). Balter, Hopewell, Miller, Wagner, and Zelefsky, “Fluoroscopically guided interventional procedures: A review of radiation effects on patients’ skin and hair,” Radiology 254, 326-341 (2010)].
