Electron beam dose calculations with the VMC algorithm and the verification data of the NCI working group

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 501-520

  Fippel, Matthias ^a   Kawrakow, Iwan ^a   Friedrich, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRON BEAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BETA RAYS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 0030937534     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/42/3/005     Document Type: Article

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