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Lead-lined X-ray doors
Lead-lined X-ray doors for radiology and CT
Radiation stays out, people stay safe. Lead shielding for radiology, CT and hybrid rooms. Sliding or hinged, with the thickness required by the medical physicist for each room.
Two versions
Shielding only, or shielding and airtightness.
Hermetic X-ray door
For operating rooms or sterile areas next to interventional radiology, where both shielding and airtightness are needed.
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X-ray door, shielding only
For standard radiology rooms, access corridors and passage areas with radiation protection requirements.
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Designed as part of the room's shielding plan.
Based on the medical physicist's design
Each door is configured to the shielding value specified for the room and integrates into the overall design.
Sized for the weight
Hinges and sliding systems carry the extra weight of the lead-lined leaf, for smooth movement over time.
HPL finish
HPL laminate cladding in the catalogue finishes, hygienic and matched to the rest of the ward.
Where they are needed
In every room with ionising radiation.
In a radiology room a lead-lined door is not just a door: it is part of the protective barrier, like the shielded walls and ceiling. If the door does not give the same protection as the wall, the whole room shielding is compromised.
The thickness comes from the calculation, not the catalogue
Protection is expressed in millimetres of lead equivalent. The value is set by the radiation protection expert through the shielding calculation required by Italian Legislative Decree 101/2020, based on equipment, workload, distance from the source and use of adjacent rooms. Two rooms in the same department may need different doors.
Shielded over the whole surface
The door must have at least the same lead equivalent as the wall: leaf, frame, overlaps and closing edges. In our doors the lead sheet continues into the overlap between panel and profile, and we recommend running the lead along the wall reveal too, as shown in detail C of the datasheet.
Sized for the real lead-lined leaf
A shielded leaf weighs much more than a standard door. Reinforced three-wing hinges, carriages, tracks and operators are sized for the actual weight, for smooth movement over time.
Sliding or hinged lead-lined door?
| Sliding RX | Hinged RX | |
|---|---|---|
| Space | No swing space in the room or corridor; needs a free wall on one side | Needs space for the leaf swing |
| Stretchers and beds | Ideal with wide openings and frequent traffic | Suitable, single or double leaf |
| Automation | Very common, simplifies ward flows | Possible with a swing door operator |
| Leaf weight | Carriages and track carry even very heavy leaves | Hinges and frame sized for the lead weight |
| Typical use | CT rooms, angiography, hybrid rooms, high-traffic radiology | Diagnostic rooms, technical rooms, clinics |
When sealing is needed too
In hybrid rooms, operating theatres with intraoperative imaging, angiography rooms with strict asepsis and nuclear medicine rooms, the door must combine the lead equivalent required by the calculation and the sealing required by the HVAC design. For these rooms there is the sealed RX version with the HOSPITAL60 profile.
Mistakes to avoid in specifications
- Writing "lead-lined door" without the mm Pb value.
- Shielding only the leaf, not frame, overlaps and vision panels.
- Ignoring the weight when sizing operators and hinges.
- Forgetting sealing in hybrid rooms.
- Not planning "X-ray in use" signs and interlocks with the electrician.
Continuous shielding
The lead must be continuous, not only in the leaf.
A lead-lined sliding door really protects only if the shielding does not break at the joints: along the leaf profiles and at the edge of the wall opening. That is where X-rays find their way into the corridor.
Illustrative animation, not to scale: yellow is the lead, red are rays reaching the corridor.
The lead thickness (mm Pb) is set by the radiation protection expert's calculation; continuity at the joints is down to the door.
Installed
Lead-lined X-ray doors, already in the rooms.
For designers and technical departments
Technical documentation.
Do you have the medical physicist's report?
Send it to us with the door schedule: we configure each door to the required value.