Modeling the instantaneous dose rate dependence of radiation diode detectors

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2509-2519

  Shi, Jie ^a   Simon, William E ^a   Zhu, Timothy C ^b  

^a Sun Nuclear Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diode; Generation recombination; In vivo dosimetry; Radiation detector; SSD dependence

Indexed keywords

DIODES; RADIATION; RADIATION DETECTORS;

DOSE RATE DEPENDENCE; ELECTRON RADIATION; GENERATION RECOMBINATION; IN-VIVO; MINORITY CARRIER CONCENTRATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SSD DEPENDENCE; THEORETICAL MODELING;

CARRIER CONCENTRATION;

ARTICLE; DIODE; DOSIMETRY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DOSE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 0141855382     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1602171     Document Type: Article

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