Variations in backscatter observed in PMMA whole-body dosimetry slab phantoms

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 375-381

  Schwahn, Scott O ^a   Gesell, Thomas F ^b  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY; PHANTOM; PROCESS CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; UNCERTAINTY; WHOLE BODY COUNTER;

HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 45149106870     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncm391     Document Type: Article

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