Physics A-Level
Barium meal
What Barium meal means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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A technique in which the barium coats the oesophagus, stomach and intestine, and those coated surfaces attenuate the beam far more than soft tissue.
Topics that use Barium meal
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