Calculation of a pencil beam kernel from measured photon beam data

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2917-2928

  Storchi, P R M ^a   Van Battum, L J ^a   Woudstra, E ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0032785775     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/12/305     Document Type: Article

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