Target, purging magnet and electron collector design for scanned high- energy photon beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1091-1112

  Svensson, Roger ^a   Åsell, Mats ^a   Näfstadius, Peder ^a   Brahme, Anders ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREMS RADIATION; COLLIMATOR; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031949106     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/5/004     Document Type: Article

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