Performance and beam characteristics of the Siemens primus linear accelerator

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 734-736

  Sontag, Marc R ^a   Steinberg, Todd H ^b  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam dosimetry; Linear accelerator; Multileaf collimator; Siemens Primus

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS;

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS; BEAM CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRON ENERGIES; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; SIEMENS; SMALL FOOTPRINTS; SOLID-STATE MODULATOR; X-RAY ENERGIES;

X RAYS;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032965072     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598580     Document Type: Article

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