Robust calculation of effective atomic numbers: The Auto-Zeff software

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1769-1778

  Taylor, M L ^a,b,c   Smith, R L ^a,c   Dossing, F ^d   Franich, R D ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^c ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d Cimbex Software   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

COMPOSITE MEDIA; CROSS SECTION DATA; EFFECTIVE ATOMIC NUMBER; ENERGY DEPENDENT; LINEAR ADDITIVITY; PHOTON INTERACTIONS; USER-FRIENDLY-SOFTWARE; WATER EQUIVALENCE;

ATOMS;

EID: 84861607374     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3689810     Document Type: Article

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