General collection efficiency in liquid iso-octane and tetramethylsilane used as sensitive media in a thimble ionization chamber

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2161-2170

  Johansson, Bengt Erik ^a   Bahar Gogani, Jalil ^a   Wickman, Göran ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCTANE; SILANE DERIVATIVE; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LIQUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HALF-LIFE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCTANES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILANES;

EID: 0032833338     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/9/304     Document Type: Article

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