PRDC - A software package for personnel radiation dose calculation

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 243-250

  Kim, Chan Hyeong ^a   Cho, Sang Hyun ^b   Xu, X George ^c  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORGAN; PARTICLE RADIATION; PHANTOM; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION ENERGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33745700289     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nci352     Document Type: Article

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