Determination of the energy fluence of diagnostic x-ray beams from field measurements of attenuation curves

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1089-1095

  Delgado, Víctor ^a   Ortiz, Pedro ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Attenuation curve; Energy fluence; x rays

Indexed keywords

IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS;

ATTENUATION CURVE; ATTENUATION MEASUREMENTS; DIAGNOSTIC X-RAY EQUIPMENT; ENERGY FLUENCES; FIELD MEASUREMENT; LOW ENERGY X RAYS; SPECTRAL DATA; X RAY BEAM;

X RAYS;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; X RAY;

EID: 0030746918     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598080     Document Type: Article

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