HVL has various meanings in the Medical category. Discover the full forms, definitions, and usage contexts of HVL in Medical.
Half value layer is the width of a material required to reduce the air kerma of a x-ray or gamma-ray to half its original value. This applies for narrow beam geometry only as broad-beam geometry will experience a large degree of scatter, which will underestimate the degree of attenuation.
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