Development and characterisation of a head calibration phantom for in vivo measurements of actinides

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 53, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 387-393

  Gualdrini, G ^a   Battisti, P ^a   Biagini, R ^a   De Felice, P ^a   Fazio, A ^a   Ferrari, P ^b  

^a ENEA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Actinide previous contamination; Calibration phantom; Monte Carlo; Whole body counter

Indexed keywords

ACTINIDE;

CALIBRATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTAMINATION; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THEORY; WHOLE BODY COUNTER;

ACTINOID SERIES ELEMENTS; BODY BURDEN; HEAD; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION MONITORING; SKULL;

ACTINIDES; AMERICIUM; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; IONIZING RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIOACTIVITY MEASUREMENT; RADIOISOTOPES; SPECTROMETRY; STANDARDS;

CALIBRATION PHANTOM; SOFTWARE PACKAGE MCNP4-B;

RADIATION CHEMISTRY;

EID: 0033691755     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(00)00174-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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