A new approach to film dosimetry for high-energy photon beams using organic plastic scintillators

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3055-3069

  Yeo, I J ^a   Wang, C K C ^b   Burch, S E ^c  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRON BEAM; FILM DOSIMETER; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTILLATION; X RAY;

EID: 0032761239     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/12/314     Document Type: Article

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