An equivalent square field formula for determining head scatter factors of rectangular fields

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1770-1774

  Kim, Siyong ^a   Zhu, Timothy C ^a   Palta, Jatinder R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collimator exchange; Equivalent square; Head scatter factor

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENT SQUARE; EXCHANGE EFFECTS; FIELD SIZE; SCATTER FACTOR;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SCATTERING;

EID: 0030667163     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597963     Document Type: Article

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