Build-up cap materials for measurement of photon head-scatter factors

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1875-1886

  Weber, Lars ^a   Nilsson, Per ^a   Ahnesjö, Anders ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Box 1704   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYSTYRENE;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHANTOM; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 0030866208     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/42/10/002     Document Type: Article

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