Measurement of backscatter to the monitor chamber of medical accelerators using target charge

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 334-338

  Lam, Kwok L ^a   Muthuswamy, Moorthy S ^a   Ten Haken, Randall K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscatter; Monitor chamber; Target charge; Telescope

Indexed keywords

MICA; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; TELESCOPES;

MEDICAL ACCELERATOR; NONINVASIVE METHODS; PHOTON BEAMS; TELESCOPIC METHOD;

BACKSCATTERING;

ARTICLE; BREMS RADIATION; COLLIMATOR; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION SCATTERING;

EID: 0031897239     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598203     Document Type: Article

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