Evaluation of a commercial three-dimensional electron pencil beam algorithm

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 91-101

  Muller Runkel, Renate ^a   Cho, Sang Hyun ^a,b  

^a S Margaret Mercy Healthcare Centers   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION;

BETA TESTING; CIRCULAR CUTOUT; ELECTRON FIELD; INCIDENT BEAMS; INHOMOGENEITIES; ISODOSE DISTRIBUTION; MEDICAL SYSTEMS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRONS;

ELECTRONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRON ACCELERATOR; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 0031033236     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597915     Document Type: Article

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