Comparative Study of Plastic Scintillators for Dosimetric Applications

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2749-2756

  Frelin, Anne Marie ^a   Fontbonne, Jean Marc ^a   Ban, Gilles ^a   Colin, Jean ^a   Labalme, Marc ^a  

^a Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire   (France)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; linearity; plastic scintillator; scintillation yield; time response

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008063752     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2002888     Document Type: Article

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