The Compton backscattering process and radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 417-423

  Weeks, K J ^a,c   Litvinenko, V N ^b   Madey, J M J ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Compton backscatter; dose distributions; photon therapy; ultrarelativistic electrons

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DISEASES; GAMMA RAYS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

BREMSSTRAHLUNG PROCESS; COMPTON; COMPTON BACKSCATTERING; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; HIGH-ENERGY PHOTON BEAMS; LOW-ENERGY COMPONENTS; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; PRODUCTION OF RADIONUCLIDES;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPTON EFFECT; ELECTRON; PHOTON; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 0030894733     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597903     Document Type: Article

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