Monitoring the eye lens: Which dose quantity is adequate?

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4047-4062

  Behrens, R ^a   Dietze, G ^b  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; RADIATION;

BETA RADIATION; CONVERSION COEFFICIENTS; DOSE CONVERSION; DOSE EQUIVALENT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; EQUIVALENT DOSE; PROTECTION MEASURES; RADIATION FIELD;

EYE PROTECTION;

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); RADIOISOTOPE;

AIR; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; ELECTRON; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LENS; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; UNCERTAINTY; X RAY;

AIR; ALGORITHMS; BETA PARTICLES; CALIBRATION; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; UNCERTAINTY; X-RAYS;

EID: 77958168186     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/14/007     Document Type: Article

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