The effective atomic number of dosimetric gels
The effective atomic number of dosimetric gels is a scholarly work, published in 2008 in ''Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine''. The main subjects of the publication include physics, atomic physics, energy, attenuation, photon energy, imaging phantom, materials science, dosimeter, Analytical Chemistry, computational physics, mass attenuation coefficient, photon, effective atomic number, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, range, chemistry, atomic number, and atomic mass. Studying the variation of Zeff, which is equivalent to taking into account the variation of mass attenuation coefficients with photon energy, it is found that gels typically match water better than water matches human tissues.