Peripheral dose from a linear accelerator equipped with multileaf collimation

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 559-563

  Stern, Robin L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Multileaf collimator; Peripheral dose; Radiation dosimetry

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DOSIMETRY; PHOTONS;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; CENTRAL AXIS; COMPARATIVE MEASUREMENTS; DIODE DETECTORS; FIELD SIZE; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; PERIPHERAL DOSE; SOLID PHANTOMS;

LINEAR ACCELERATORS;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DIODE; MANDIBLE; MAXILLA; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SCATTERING;

EID: 0032939747     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598557     Document Type: Article

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