Experimental determination of the effective point of measurement for various detectors used in photon and electron beam dosimetry

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 4267-4290

  Looe, Hui Khee ^a,b   Harder, Dietrich ^c   Poppe, Björn ^a,b  

^a PIUS HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDRICAL CHAMBERS; ELECTRON BEAM DOSIMETRY; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FLUENCES; GRADIENT EFFECT; IONIZING PARTICLES; MARKUS CHAMBERS; MEV-ELECTRONS; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO PREDICTIONS; POINT OF MEASUREMENT; RADIATION QUALITY; REFERENCE POINTS; SILICON DIODES;

DETECTORS; DIODES; ELECTRON BEAMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

DOSIMETRY;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; RADIOMETRY;

ELECTRONS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; SILICON;

EID: 79960344009     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/14/005     Document Type: Article

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