Electron beam dosimetry of Total Skin Electron Therapy (TSET);Dosimetria di fasci di elettroni per la Total Skin Electron Therapy (TSET)

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 108, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 549-559

  Piermattei, Angelo ^a   Rossi, Giacinto ^a   Azario, Luigi ^a   Fidanzio, Andrea ^a   Balducci, Mauro ^a   Valentini, Vincenzo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Total skin electron irradiation

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); WATER;

ARTICLE; DIODE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON BEAM FILTRATION; ELECTRON THERAPY; FILM; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; PHANTOM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SILICON DIODE; TOTAL SKIN ELECTRON THERAPY;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 13244252442     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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