Electron dose profile shaping by modulation of a scanning elementary beam

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-44

  Lief, Eugene P ^a   Larsson, Anders ^a   Humm, John L ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

elementary beam; high energy electron beams; intensity modulation; Microtron; penumbra

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MICROTRONS; SCANNING;

ELEMENTARY BEAMS; HIGH ENERGY ELECTRON BEAMS; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; ITERATIVE DECONVOLUTION; LARGE-ANGLE SCATTERING; NORMAL TISSUE SPARING; PENUMBRA;

ELECTRONS;

ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON ACCELERATOR; ELECTRON BEAM; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SCATTERING;

EID: 0030060051     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597786     Document Type: Article

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