A 10 MV x-ray zero-area tissue-maximum ratio expression constructed by taking into account depth and off-axis beam quality change

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2209-2214

  Iwasaki, Akira ^a  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

10 MV x rays; Depth quality change; Off axis quality change; Zero area TMR

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; TISSUE;

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; COLLISION KERMA; CONVOLUTION METHODS; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; QUALITY CHANGE; SPREAD FUNCTIONS; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); ZERO-AREA TMR;

X RAYS;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COLLIMATOR; DOSE CALCULATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE;

EID: 0031770198     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598419     Document Type: Article

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