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Conversion coefficients from fluence and air kerma to personal dose equivalent for monoenergetic photons using analytical fit and Monte Carlo simulation

Polish Journal of Medical Physics and Engineering
Volume 26 (2020): Issue 1 (March 2020)
By: Hassan Al Kanti,  O. El Hajjaji and  T. El Bardouni  
Open Access
|Apr 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pjmpe-2020-0004 | Journal eISSN: 1898-0309 | Journal ISSN: 1425-4689
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Language: English
Page range: 31 - 44
Submitted on: Sep 4, 2019
Accepted on: Feb 17, 2020
Published on: Apr 3, 2020
Published by: Polish Society of Medical Physics
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
operational quantity,
personal dose equivalent,
conversion coefficients,
fluence,
air kerma,
MC
Related subjects:
Medicine,
Biomedical engineering,
Physics,
Technical and applied physics,
Medical physics

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