Radial dose distribution, dose to water and dose rate constant for monoenergetic photon point sources from 10 keV to 2 MeV: EGS4 Monte Carlo model calculation

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2531-2538

  Luxton, Gary ^a   Jozsef, Gabor ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; EGS4; Monte Carlo; Radioisotope; X ray dosimetry

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOTHERAPY; RATE CONSTANTS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE RATE CONSTANTS; EGS4; MASS ENERGY ABSORPTION; PHOTON EMISSION RATE; PHOTON ENERGY RANGE; PHOTON TRANSPORT MODELS; RADIAL DOSE FUNCTION;

PHOTONS;

WATER;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON; ENERGY ABSORPTION; MODEL; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033461145     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598790     Document Type: Article

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