Photon beam skin dose analyses for different clinical setups

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 860-866

  Kim, Siyong ^a   Liu, Chihray R ^a   Zhu, Timothy C ^a   Palta, Jatinder R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Blocks; Multileaf collimator; Photon beam; Skin dose; Tray; Wedge

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; PLATE METAL;

BLOCKS; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; PHOTON BEAMS; SKIN DOSE; TRAY; WEDGE;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

ACRYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; METAL;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; SKIN SURFACE;

EID: 0031830589     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598261     Document Type: Article

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