Clinical implications of collimator exchange effect, relative collimator and phantom scatter

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 27-30

  Meeks, S L ^a  

^a Gulf Coast Cancer Treatment Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Collimator exchange effect; Head scatter; Monitor unit; Phantom scatter

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; STANDARD;

HUMANS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0030096006     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0958-3947(95)02058-6     Document Type: Article

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