Radiation survey around a Liac mobile electron linear accelerator for intraoperative radiation therapy

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 131-138

  Ciocca, Mario ^a   Pedroli, Guido ^a   Orecchia, Roberto ^a,b   Guido, Andrea ^a   Cattani, Federica ^a   Cambria, Raffaella ^a   Veronesi, Umberto ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electrons; IORT; Mobile linear accelerator; Radiation protection

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949116792     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v10i2.2950     Document Type: Article

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