Secondary particles contribution to the dose characteristics in high energy particles beams and fields

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 28, Issue 1-6, 1997, Pages 505-513

  Spurny F ^b   Bednar J ^b   Turek, K ^b   Bottollier Depois, J F ^c   Dudkin, V E ^a  

^a Research Center of Spacecraft Radiation Safety   (Russian Federation)

^b NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Automatic image analyzer; Cosmic rays; High energy bremsstrahlung protons; High energy protons; Linear energy transfer; Polyallyldiglycolcarbonate; Track etch detectors; Track parameters

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; ENERGY TRANSFER; ETCHING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTONS; POLYCARBONATES; PROTONS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BREMSSTRAHLUNG PROTONS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER (LET) SPECTROSCOPY; POLYALLYLDIGLYCOL CARBONATE; RADIOBIOLOGY; TRACK ETCHED DETECTORS (TED);

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 0031343485     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4487(97)00129-7     Document Type: Article

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