Dose imaging with gel-dosemeter layers: Optical analysis and dedicated software

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 120, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 144-147

  Gambarini, Grazia ^a,b   Carrara, M ^a   Gay, S ^a,b   Tomatis, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; GEL; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NEUTRON RADIATION; POLARIMETRY; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; GELS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SOLUTIONS; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY;

EID: 33749867230     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nci625     Document Type: Article

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