In-phantom characterisation studies at the Birmingham Accelerator-Generated epIthermal Neutron Source (BAGINS) BNCT facility

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 733-738

  Culbertson, Christopher N ^a   Green, Stuart ^b   Mason, Anna J ^a   Picton, David ^a   Baugh, Gareth ^a   Hugtenburg, Richard P ^a,b   Yin, Zaizhe ^a   Scott, Malcolm C ^a   Nelson, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION; METAL FOIL; PHOTONS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

FOIL ACTIVATION; IN-PHANTOM CHARACTERIZATION; NORMALIZATION;

NEUTRON BEAMS;

BEAM THERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FOIL; HUMAN; IONIZATION CHAMBER; NEUTRON; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; NEUTRON RADIATION; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION;

BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 4143152943     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2004.05.057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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