An investigation of the photon energy dependence of the EPR alanine dosimetry system

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1753-1771

  Bergstrand, Eva Stabell ^a   Shortt, Ken R ^b,c   Ross, Carl K ^b   Hole, Eli Olaug ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONIZING RADIATION; IRRADIATION; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHOTONS;

PHOTON ENERGY;

DOSIMETRY;

COBALT 60; POLYETHYLENE;

ALANINE DOSIMETRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENERGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRRADIATION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORWAY; PHOTON; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; X RAY;

ALANINE; BIOMETRY; BIOPHYSICS; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; RADIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 0038497899     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/12/306     Document Type: Article

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