Angular dependence of the nanoDot OSL dosimeter

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3955-3962

  Kerns, James R ^a   Kry, Stephen F ^a   Sahoo, Narayan ^a   Followill, David S ^a   Ibbott, Geoffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

angular dependence; optically stimulated luminescence dosimetry

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETERS; LUMINESCENCE; NANODOTS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; PROTON BEAMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; ANGULAR RESPONSE; CALIBRATION VERIFICATION; CLINICAL PROTON BEAMS; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; LUMINESCENT DETECTOR; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; PASSIVE DOSIMETER;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 79960285377     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3596533     Document Type: Article

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