Results supporting calculated wall correction factors for cavity chambers

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 3581-3594

  Büermann, Ludwig ^a   Kramer, H M ^a   Csete, I ^b  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b Orszagos Meresugyi Hivatal   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS;

AIR KERMA;

IONIZATION CHAMBERS;

CESIUM 137; COBALT 60;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMA RADIATION; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR SYSTEM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; THEORY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 18544391181     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/21/009     Document Type: Article

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