Chest wall thickness measurements of the LLNL and JAERI torso phantoms for germanium detector counting

Health Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 831-837

  Kramer, Gary H ^b   Hauck, Barry M ^a  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Calibration; Lungs, human; Operational topics; Phantom

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; THORAX WALL;

EID: 0030746961     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199711000-00013     Document Type: Article

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