Cellular dosimetry using the Geant4 Monte Carlo toolkit

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1488-1489

  Freudenberg, Robert ^a   Kotzerke, Jorg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIUM 111; IODINE 123; TECHNETIUM 99M; INDIUM;

CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURFACE; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOPLASM; DOSIMETRY; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; INTERNET; LETTER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; RADIOMETRY;

INDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 77957095704     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.110.078832     Document Type: Letter

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