Radiation doses from low energy X-ray beams measured with synthetic diamond compared with calculated values obtained from the PENELOPE Monte Carlo code

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 952-958

  Assiamah, M ^a   Nam, T L ^a   Keddy, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Absorbed dose; Mammography X ray beams; Monte Carlo code; PENELOPE; Radiation dosimetry; Synthetic diamond

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ABSORBED DOSE; MAMMOGRAPHY X-RAY BEAMS; MONTE CARLO CODES;

SYNTHETIC DIAMONDS;

DIAMOND;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GEOMETRY; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SENSOR; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; X RAY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAMOND; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SOFTWARE; X-RAYS;

EID: 34547596183     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2007.01.025     Document Type: Article

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