Calculation of absorbed dose distributions from dynamic wedges

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1497-1506

  Storchi, Pascal ^a   Woudstra, Evert ^a   Verlinde, Philip ^a   Johansson, Karl Axel ^b   Samuelsson, Anna ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COLLIMATOR; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC;

EID: 0031807508     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/6/009     Document Type: Article

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