Dose evaluation of patients receiving total-body irradiation for the pre-treatment of bone marrow transplantation

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 61-64

  Ban, N ^a   Sawai, S ^a   Aoki, Y ^a   Nakagawa, K ^a   Kusama, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; DOSE CALCULATION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; PHANTOM; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

EID: 0030949210     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a032035     Document Type: Article

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