Monitor unit calculation for an intensity modulated photon field by a simple scatter-summation algorithm

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2000, Pages

  Xing, L ^a   Chen, Y ^a   Luxton, G ^a   Li, J G ^a   Boyer, A L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION MONITOR; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0034063644     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/3/401     Document Type: Article

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