Monte Carlo study of the energy and angular dependence of the response of plastic scintillation detectors in photon beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 5279-5286

  Wang, Lilie L W ^a   Klein, David ^a   Beddar, A Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

angular dependence; energy dependence; Monte Carlo; plastic scintillation detector

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRON DETECTORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SILICA;

ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; ENERGY DEPENDENCE; ENERGY INDEPENDENCE; OPTICAL FIBER MATERIALS; PHOTON ENERGY RANGE; PLASTIC SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; PLASTIC SCINTILLATOR; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY;

PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 77957699448     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3488904     Document Type: Article

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