Electron fluence perturbation correction factors for solid state detectors irradiated in megavoltage electron beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 255-265

  Mobit, Paul N ^a,b   Sandison, George A ^a,b   Nahum, Alan E ^c  

^a TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM FLUORIDE; LITHIUM FLUORIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON RADIATION; GAMMA RADIATION; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; SIMULATION; SOLID STATE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THEORY;

ELECTRONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; WATER;

EID: 0033951370     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/2/301     Document Type: Article

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