Monte carlo study of organ doses and related risk for cancer in Tanzania from scattered photons in cervical radiation treatment involving Co-60 source-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Monte carlo study of organ doses and related risk for cancer in Tanzania from scattered photons in cervical radiation treatment involving Co-60 source

Published:2019-06 Issue: Volume:62 Page:13-19
ISSN:1120-1797
Container-title:Physica Medica
language:en
Short-container-title:Physica Medica

Author:

Suleiman Suleiman Ameir,Qi Yaping,Chen Zhi,Xu X. George

Funder

National Key R&D Program of China

Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Subject

General Physics and Astronomy,Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging,General Medicine,Biophysics

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