Thermal and epithermal neutrons in the vicinity of the Primus Siemens biomedical accelerator

Nukleonika

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 73-81

  Konefał, Adam ^a   Dybek, Marcin ^b   Zipper, Wiktor ^a   Łobodziec, Włodzimierz ^b   Szczucka, Katarzyna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b Stanislaw Leszczynski Memorial Hospital   (Poland)

Author keywords

Biomedical accelerators; Epithermal neutrons; Thermal neutrons

Indexed keywords

APPARATUS; ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; NEUTRON; NEUTRON RADIATION; X RAY;

EID: 21644468052     PISSN: 00295922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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