Thin sheets of aluminum that are added to the tube house construction are:

added filtration
inherent filtration
total filtration
maximum filtration


added filtration

Rationale: Added filtration means thin sheets of aluminum are added to the existing inherent filtration. The effect of added filtration is to remove low energies from the beam that contribute to patient skin dose.

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