Experimental hydrogen kerma factors for incident neutron energies from 25 to 75 MeV

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 719-726

  Corcalciuc, V ^a   Benck, S ^b   Malu, R ^b   Meulders, J P ^b   Slypen, I ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC PHYSICS   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEUTRON RADIATION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

FAST NEUTRONS; HYDROGEN; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0033002726     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/3/014     Document Type: Article

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