Monte Carlo calculations of electron beam output factors for a medical linear accelerator

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3479-3494

  Kapur, Ajay ^a   Ma, C M ^a   Mok, Ed C ^a   Findley, David O ^a   Boyer, Arthur L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; DOSIMETRY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; WATER;

EID: 0031766241     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/12/007     Document Type: Article

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