Backscatter and dose perturbations for low- to medium-energy electron point sources at the interface between materials with different atomic numbers

Radiation Research

Volumn 162, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 693-701

  Buffa, Francesca M ^a   Verhaegen, Frank ^b  

^a Gray Cancer Institute   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON RADIATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ELECTRONS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSAGE; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 9244223044     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR3271     Document Type: Article

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