A feasibility study of novel plastic scintillation dosimetry with pulse-counting mode

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2079-2092

  Ishikawa, M ^a   Bengua, G ^b   Sutherland, K L ^a   Hiratsuka, J ^c   Katoh, N ^a   Shimizu, S ^a   Aoyama, H ^a   Fujita, K ^b   Yamazaki, R ^b   Horita, K ^b   Shirato, H ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COUNTING MODES; DOSE RATES; EQUIVALENT DOSE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GAMMA-RAY; IN-VIVO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDES; PILE-UP; PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS; PLASTIC SCINTILLATIONS; PLASTIC SCINTILLATORS; PULSE-HEIGHT SPECTRUM; SCINTILLATION PHOTONS; WATER PHANTOMS; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGES;

DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RAYS; IRIDIUM; LUMINESCENCE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MOSFET DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCINTILLATION;

PLASTICS;

IRIDIUM 192; PLASTIC; WATER;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSIMETER; GAMMA RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; SCINTILLATION DOSIMETER;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICAL FIBERS; PLASTICS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 63649121532     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/7/015     Document Type: Article

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