High dose behind inhomogeneities during medium-energy x-ray irradiation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1343-1350

  Mitchell, Grant ^a   Kron, Tomas ^a,b   Back, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NEWCASTLE MATER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IONIZING RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOTHERAPY; X IRRADIATION;

EID: 0031954302     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/5/023     Document Type: Article

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