Commissioning and evaluation of a new commercial small rodent x-ray irradiator

Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Woo, Milton K ^a,c   Nordal, R A ^b  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal irradiator; Radiation beam measurement; Radiobiology; Rodent irradiation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; IMAGING SYSTEM; IRRADIATION; NONHUMAN; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EQUIPMENT; RADIATION FIELD; RODENT; X IRRADIATION; X RAY DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 36649028394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18235530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2349/biij.2.1.e10     Document Type: Article

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