The physical basis for empirical rules used to determine equivalent fields for phantom scatter

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2215-2219

  McDermott, Patrick N ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Equivalent fields; Phantom scatter; Radiation dosimetry

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; PHANTOMS;

DAILY USE; EQUIVALENT FIELDS; PHYSICAL ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES; RADIATION FIELD;

GEOMETRY;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SCATTERING;

EID: 0031772476     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598420     Document Type: Article

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