Calculation of depth dose and dose per monitor unit for irregularly shaped electron fields

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2741-2754

  Khan, F M ^a   Higgins, P D ^a   Gerbi, B J ^a   Deibel, F C ^a   Sethi, A ^a   Mihailidis, D N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONS; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; X-RAYS;

EID: 0031661872     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/10/005     Document Type: Article

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