Journal of Medical Physics, 2019 Aim: This study aims to develop a method using dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) to determine the effective atomic number and electron density of substances.
Avinav Bharati +8 more
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Lanthanides Toxicity in Zebrafish Embryos Are Correlated to Their Atomic Number [PDF]
Toxics, 2022 Rare earth elements (REEs) are critical metallic materials with a broad application in industry and biomedicine. The exponential increase in REEs utilization might elevate the toxicity to aquatic animals if they are released into the water due to ...
Ying-Ting Lin +7 more
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Tissue Equivalent Curved Organic X‐ray Detectors Utilizing High Atomic Number Polythiophene Analogues [PDF]
Advanced Science, 2023 Organic semiconductors are a promising material candidate for X‐ray detection. However, the low atomic number (Z) of organic semiconductors leads to poor X‐ray absorption thus restricting their performance.
M. Prabodhi A. Nanayakkara +16 more
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Investigation of the effective atomic number dependency on kinetic energy using collision stopping powers for electrons, protons, alpha, and carbon particles [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 As an important component in medical applications, dosimetry, and radiotherapy studies, the effective atomic number of body tissue, tissue equivalent substances, and dosimetry compounds are investigated.
Peiman Rezaeian +2 more
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Effective atomic number and electron density determination for fricke gel dosimeters using different methods [PDF]
Journal of Medical Physics, 2022 The effective atomic number and electron density of some Fricke gel dosimeters were calculated for photon interaction in the energy range from 10 keV to 1000 MeV using Auto-Zeff, direct and power law methods.
Ouiza Moussous
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Journal of Studies in Science and Engineering, 2021 The paper describes the X-ray attenuation in materials according to their atomic number, using six different materials from low atomic number to higher atomic number, Iron (Fe-26) as low atomic number, silver (Ag-47), tin (Sn-50), platinum (Pt-78), gold (
Viyan Jamal Jalal +2 more
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Empirical Relation for Electronic and Optical Properties of Binary Tetrahedral Semiconductors
East European Journal of Physics, 2021 The concept of ionicity has been developed by Phillips and Van Vechten from the dielectric analysis of the semiconductors and insulators to evaluate various bond parameters of binary tetrahedral (AIIBVI and AIIIBV) semiconductors.
Ajay Singh Verma +2 more
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A New Response to Wray and an Attempt to Widen the Conversation
Substantia, 2022 This article begins by examining a recent claim by Brad Wray that the discovery of atomic number and isotopy constitutes a scientific revolution in the sense of the later writings of Thomas Kuhn.
Eric Scerri
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Number-resolved preparation of mesoscopic atomic ensembles
New Journal of Physics, 2021 The analysis of entangled atomic ensembles and their application for interferometry beyond the standard quantum limit requires an accurate determination of the number of atoms.
A Hüper +9 more
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Optoelectronic Properties of Ternary Tetrahedral Semiconductors
East European Journal of Physics, 2021 The dielectric interpretation of crystal ionicity evolved by Phillips and Van Vechten (P.V.V) has been utilized to evaluate various ground state properties for broad range of semiconductors and insulators.
Rajesh C. Gupta +2 more
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