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The effect of SSD, Field size, Energy and Detector type for Relative Output Factor measurement in small photon beams as compared with Monte Carlo simulation Cover

The effect of SSD, Field size, Energy and Detector type for Relative Output Factor measurement in small photon beams as compared with Monte Carlo simulation

Polish Journal of Medical Physics and Engineering
Volume 25 (2019): Issue 2 (June 2019)
By: Itumeleng Setilo,  Oluwaseyi Michael Oderinde and  Freek Cp du Plessis  
Open Access
|Jun 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pjmpe-2019-0014 | Journal eISSN: 1898-0309 | Journal ISSN: 1425-4689
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Language: English
Page range: 101 - 110
Submitted on: Aug 12, 2018
Accepted on: Feb 12, 2019
Published on: Jun 18, 2019
Published by: Polish Society of Medical Physics
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
small-field dosimetry,
relative output factor,
electronic equilibrium,
Monte Carlo
Related subjects:
Medicine,
Biomedical engineering,
Physics,
Technical and applied physics,
Medical physics

© 2019 Itumeleng Setilo, Oluwaseyi Michael Oderinde, Freek Cp du Plessis, published by Polish Society of Medical Physics
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