Medical Dosimetry
Volume 31, Issue 3 , Pages 209-215 , Autumn 2006

Surface dose measurement using TLD powder extrapolation

  • P. Rapley, Ph.D.

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: P. Rapley, Regional Cancer Care, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, 980 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 6V4.

Received 20 April 2005 ,Accepted 13 February 2006.

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 Part of this paper was presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Organization of Physicists in Medicine in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.

PII: S0958-3947(06)00046-X

doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2006.02.003

Medical Dosimetry
Volume 31, Issue 3 , Pages 209-215 , Autumn 2006

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