X-ray face mask and bib device

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A protective face mask to shield an x-ray technician or machine operator primarily from random secondary of scatter x-rays deflected toward his face head and neck by the table, walls, equipment and other reflecting element in an x-ray room, during the period of exposure while adjacent the object or person being exposed to the x-ray beam. The face mask device is mountable upon a patient's shoulders in reverse attitude to protect the back of the patient's head and neck from the x-ray beam while being exposed to such beam for chest or upper body portion study and examination. The face mask is made of a relatively transparent lead-containing radiation shielding plastic material, and is …