Experimental determination of the dose kernel in high-energy x-ray beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 505-511

  Ceberg, Crister P ^a   Bjärngard, Bengt E ^a   Zhu, Timothy C ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

experimental; Monte Carlo; pencil beam

Indexed keywords

NEUTRON EMISSION; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTONS; SPECTROSCOPY; X RAYS;

EXPERIMENTAL; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; HIGH ENERGY X RAY; LATERAL VARIATIONS; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; PENCIL BEAM; SEMI-EMPIRICAL METHODS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; X RAY;

EID: 0029877777     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597807     Document Type: Article

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