New shielding materials for clinical electron beams

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 391-393

  Tajiri, Minoru ^a   Tokiya, Yuji ^a   Uenishi, Jun ^b   Sunaoka, Masayoshi ^a   Watanabe, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Association for Nuclear Technology in Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron beam; Environmental pollution; Lead substitute; Shielding material

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENT; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33748699341     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2006.08.002     Document Type: Article

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