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Strahlentherapie
; 155(10): 714-8, 1979 Oct.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-494343
RESUMO
A method is described for calculating the absorbed dose rate in tissue around encapsulated linear radium- or 137Cs-sources. A variable factor is derived relating this quantity to the absorbed dose rate from the unshielded source in air. This factor depends on a set of geometrical parameters including some data concerning the shape of the source ends.