Partial body irradiation of small laboratory animals with an industrial X-ray tube

Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 352-362

  Frenzel, Thorsten ^a   Grohmann, Carsten ^a   Schumacher, Udo ^a   Krüll, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

KV dosimetry; Small animal irradiation; Water phantom

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL BODY RADIATION; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOLOGY PHANTOM; RADIOTHERAPY SOFTWARE; X RAY TUBE;

EID: 84918794592     PISSN: 09393889     EISSN: 18764436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zemedi.2014.02.002     Document Type: Article

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