Development of lung and soft tissue substitutes for photons

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 115, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 284-288

  Kinase, Sakae ^a   Kimura, Masaya ^b   Noguchi, Hiroshi ^a   Yokoyama, Sumi ^a  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO KAGAKU CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NIOBIUM; POLYURETHAN;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; CARTILAGE; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; KIDNEY; LARYNX; LIVER; LUNG; MUSCLE; PHANTOM; PHOTON; RADIATION PROTECTION; SIMULATION; SKIN; SOFT TISSUE; THYROID GLAND; TRACHEA;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BODY BURDEN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; HUMANS; LUNG; MATERIALS TESTING; PHOTONS; POLYURETHANES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 30844443471     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nci018     Document Type: Article

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