The investigation of fetal doses in mantle field irradiation

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 165-170

  Karaçam, Songül Çavdar ^a   Güralp, Onur Şahin ^a   Öksüz, Didem Çolpan ^a   Koca, Ayşe ^b   Çepni, Ismail ^a   Çepni, Kimia ^c   Beşe, Nuran ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Private Sante Hospital   (Turkey)

^c OKMEYDANI EDUCATION AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60;

ARTICLE; COBALT THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MANTLE FIELD RADIOTHERAPY; PHANTOM; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION FIELD; SIMULATION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 64949168667     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncp034     Document Type: Article

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