Electron contamination and build-up doses in conformal radiotherapy fields

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-55

  Hounsell, Alan R ^a   Wilkinson, John M ^a  

^a CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTAMINATION; ELECTRON; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOTHERAPY;

ELECTRONS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0032925069     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/1/005     Document Type: Article

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