Photonuclear production in tissue for different 50 MV bremsstrahlung beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 683-688

  Sätherberg, Anders ^a   Johansson, Lennart ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; TISSUE;

ACTIVATION MEASUREMENTS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; HEAVY PARTICLES; HPGE DETECTORS; PHOTON FIELDS; PHOTONUCLEAR; SCAN PATTERNS; TARGET CONFIGURATIONS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CARBON; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PROTON;

ALPHA RADIATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; NEUTRON RADIATION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031832308     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598238     Document Type: Article

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