Calculation of the absorbed dose distribution due to irregularly shaped photon beams using pencil beam kernels derived from basic beam data

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 637-656

  Storchi, Pascal ^a   Woudstra, Evert ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; LIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY;

HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 0029874819     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/41/4/005     Document Type: Article

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