A model for photon detection and dosimetry with superheated emulsions

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 401-409

  D'Errico, Francesco ^a   Nath, Ravinder ^a   Nolte, Ralf ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bubble chambers; Bubble detectors; Photon detection; Photon dosimetry; Radiation induced nucleation; Reduced superheat; Superheated drop detectors; Superheated emulsions; Thermal spike theory

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BUBBLE CHAMBERS; CRYSTALLIZATION; DOSIMETRY; HALOCARBONS; NUCLEATION; OSTWALD RIPENING; PHOTODETECTORS;

BUBBLE DETECTOR; PHOTON DETECTION; RADIATION-INDUCED; REDUCED SUPERHEAT; SUPERHEATED DROP DETECTORS; SUPERHEATED EMULSIONS; THERMAL SPIKES;

PHOTONS;

HALOCARBON; OCTAFLUOROPROPANE; R 218; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; EMULSION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS; VAPORIZATION;

EID: 0034048751     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598844     Document Type: Article

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