Patent ID: 7053013

Claim:
An X-ray absorbing material comprising: a matrix with a fixed X-ray absorbing metal-containing filler in the form of dispersed particles, wherein said filler material is a poly-dispersed mixture that has been segregated by intermixing and that contains metallic particles having a size between 10 −9 and 10 −3 m fixed in a textile base that serves as a matrix; and wherein the particles are bonded to the surface of and embedded in said textile base, and where the density of the X-ray absorbing material as a whole, given that the X-ray absorbing properties are equal to those of the material used for the particles of the X-ray absorbing filler, is defined by the relation: ρ m =(0.01–0.20)ρ p, where ρm is the density of the X-ray absorbing material as a whole, and ρp is the density of the material used for the particles of the X-ray absorbing filler.