Photon fluence perturbation correction factors for solid state detectors irradiated in kilovoltage photon beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 267-277

  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 DERIVATIVE; LITHIUM FLUORIDE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; LIGHT; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; SIMULATION; SOLID STATE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

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

EID: 0033953977     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/2/302     Document Type: Article

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