Composite energy deposition kernels for focused point monodirectional photon beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1655-1668

  Eklöf, Anders ^a   Brahme, Anders ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ENERGY;

PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY;

EID: 0032769521     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/7/306     Document Type: Article

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