CVD diamonds as thermoluminescent detectors for medical applications

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 101, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 485-488

  Marczewska, B ^a   Olko, P ^a   Nesladek, M ^b   Waligorski, M P R ^a,c   Kerremansll, Y ^d   Horowitz, Y S ^e   Oster, L ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^d Scientific and Technical Research Center for Diamond   (Belgium)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60; DISINFECTANT AGENT; LITHIUM; MAGNESIUM; TITANIUM; WATER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMA RADIATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIGHT; PHANTOM; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLUBILITY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; X RAY;

EID: 0036392957     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006033     Document Type: Article

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