KiArmor has been developed by specialist U.K. manufacturer, Kemmetech Ltd., and Camarillo, California based
medical manufacturer INFAB Corporation as a response to studies that show a 300% increase over the past
decade in cardiologist's and interventionalist's exposure to ionizing radiation. The increase directly
correlates with the rise in the number of cardiac imaging procedures conducted by cardiologists in modern
hospitals and medical facilities.
TESTING STANDARDS
KiArmor is the lightest and most flexible radiation protection material ever certified to the exacting
IEC 61331-1 standard, from 60 kV to 120kV; the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) F2547-06
standard, and the new DIN 6857-1 ~ a standard specifically designed for Lead-Free and Lead composite materials.
A NEW STANDARD OF RADIATION PROTECTION, KiArmor is a new, high-performance and ultra-lightweight radiation
protection material, now available in a range of aprons and protective apparel from Infab Corporation.
Lighter and more flexible than any comparable product, KiArmor provides 40% greater protection
against absorbed dose than Lead-free or low-Lead composite materials, and 20% more protection than
standard Lead-based equivalents.
CERTIFIED TO THE HIGHEST GLOBAL STANDARDS
Tested and certified to IEC 61331-1:1994; IEC 61331-1:2013/2014 (Draft); ASTM F2547-06 and DIN 6857-1, designed
specifically to test Lead-free and low-Lead composites
Tested and certified by the UK’s National Physical Laboratory – the world-wide calibration authority for X-ray and
nuclear radiation
Tested and certified within of full range of kV (60kV-120kV)
Independently tested and verified in the full keV spectrum of scatter radiation
Available in Lead-free and low-Lead Bi-layer
ABSORBED DOSE
X-Ray procedures expose medical personnel to a quantity of scatter radiation. ‘Absorbed dose’ describes the quantity of
energy absorbed by the body and organs as a result of exposure to ionizing radiation.
An apron’s protection levels are typically expressed as a Lead equivalency (LE), without describing absorbed dose.
Aprons that express their protection levels as an attenuation percentage can be misleading, since the measurement of
critical importance is the amount of radiation that gets through to the worker – the Transmission Factor.
A 0.25mm LE Apron will allow approximately 10% of the source radiation to penetrate. At 0.5mm LE this becomes
approximately 2%. The difference between these figures is five times, or 500%. In other words, choosing the higher of
these two levels of protection will allow a worker to work five times longer to receive the same dose of radiation as
the colleague wearing the lower protection level.
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