High energy electron beams characterization using CaSO 4:Dy+PTFE Phosphors for clinical therapy applications

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1304-1306

  Rivera, T ^a   Espinoza, A ^b   Von, S M ^b   Alvarez, R ^a   Jimenez Y ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b Centro Estatal de Cancerología de los Servicios de Salud de Nayarit   (Mexico)

Author keywords

CaSO4:Dy; Electron beams; LINACs; Thermoluminescence

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; CALCIUM SULFATE; CASO4:DY; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICES; CLINICAL THERAPY; ELECTRON BEAM DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONIC EQUILIBRIUM; GLOW CURVE; HIGH ENERGY ELECTRON BEAMS; LINACS; REPRODUCIBILITIES;

DYSPROSIUM; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRONS; IRRADIATION; PELLETIZING; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

LINEAR ACCELERATORS;

CALCIUM SULFATE; DYSPROSIUM; POLITEF;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON RADIATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

CALCIUM SULFATE; ELECTRONS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY;

EID: 84862187233     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: 18729800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2011.12.003     Document Type: Article

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