Sharpening the penumbra of high energy electron beams with low weight narrow photon beams

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 213-220

  Korevaar, Erik W ^a   Van Vliet, Remco J ^a   Woudstra, Evert ^a   Heijmen, Ben J M ^a   Huizenga, Henk ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conformal therapy; High energy electrons; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRON RADIATION; LIGHT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PHYSICS;

ELECTRONS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC;

EID: 0031687786     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(98)00030-9     Document Type: Article

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