Producing a beam with a more median energy describes:

beam restriction
inherent filtration
aperture diaphragms
total filtration


total filtration

Rationale: X-ray beams are polyenergetic. In efforts to remove the low energies from the beam that contribute to patient skin dose, filtration is necessary.

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