Radiance modelling using the P3 approximation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3559-3570

  Dickey, Dwayne ^a,b   Barajas, Oscar ^a,b   Brown, Kevin ^a   Tulip, John ^a   Moore, Ronald B ^a  

^a CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTRALIPID; METHYLENE BLUE;

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHANTOM; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THEORY;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FAT EMULSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LASERS; MATHEMATICS; METHYLENE BLUE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0031792238     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/12/013     Document Type: Article

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