Shielding design of a treatment room for an accelerator-based epithermal neutron irradiation facility for BNCT

Health Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 692-699

  Evans, Jeffrey F ^b   Blue, Thomas E ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; neutrons; photons; shielding

Indexed keywords

BORON; POLYETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; IRRADIATION; NEUTRON; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHOTON; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION PROTECTION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0029958308     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199611000-00008     Document Type: Article

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