Quality assurance procedures for the neutron beam monitors at the FiR 1 BNCT facility

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1015-1019

  Auterinen, I ^a   Seren T ^a   Kotiluoto, P ^a   Uusi Simola, J ^b   Savolainen, S ^b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Beam monitoring; BNCT; Non linearity; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; DOSIMETERS; NEUTRON BEAMS;

BEAM MONITORING SYSTEMS; FINLAND;

ISOTOPES;

BORON;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DOSIMETRY; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; MEASUREMENT; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NEUTRON RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MONITOR; REACTOR; RELIABILITY;

BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; FINLAND; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 4143051428     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2004.05.034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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