Effect of electron contamination on scatter correction factors for photon beam dosimetry

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2099-2106

  Venselaar, Jack ^a   Heukelom, Stan ^b   Jager, Niek ^c   Mijnheer, Ben ^d   Van Der Laarse, Rob ^e   Van Gasteren, Hans ^e   Van Kleffens, Herman ^f   Westermann, Carel ^g  

^a DR BERNARD VERBEETEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e Nucletron BV   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^g MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electron contamination; Output factor; Photon beams; Scatter correction factor

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; TISSUE;

ELECTRON CONTAMINATION; MEGAVOLTAGE PHOTONS; MULTIPLICATION FACTOR; OUTPUT FACTORS; PHOTON BEAMS; QUANTITATIVE KNOWLEDGE; SCATTER CORRECTION; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

CONTAMINATION;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032746877     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598725     Document Type: Article

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