Use of bubble detectors to measure neutron contamination of a medical accelerator photon beam

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 239-246

  Bourgois, L ^a   Delacroix, D ^a   Ostrowsky, A ^b  

^a SPR SRI GRAD

^b DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRON ACCELERATOR; NEUTRON RADIATION; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION PROTECTION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER;

EID: 0031453102     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a032203     Document Type: Article

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