Calculation of depth dose and dose per monitor unit for irregularly shaped electron fields: An addendum

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1999, Pages

  Khan, Faiz M ^a   Higgins, Patrick D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRON BEAM; ENERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; THEORY;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032994926     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/6/401     Document Type: Article

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3. ICRU (International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements) 1984 Radiation dosimetry: electron beams with energy between 1 and 50 MeV ICRU Report 35 (Bethesda, MD: ICRU)
4. Khan F M, Higgins P D, Gerbi B J, Deibel F C, Sethi A and Mihailidis D N 1998 Calculation of depth dose and dose per monitor unit for irregularly shaped electron fields Phys. Med. Biol. 43 2741-54