Calculation of microplanar beam dose profiles in a tissue/lung/tissue phantom

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2491-2501

  Company, F Z ^a   Allen, B J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b St George Cancer Care Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; IRRADIATION; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; SYNCHROTRON;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; CAPILLARIES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REGENERATION; SKIN;

EID: 0031711209     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/9/005     Document Type: Article

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