Modelling pencil-beam divergence with the electron pencil-beam redefinition algorithm

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2841-2856

  Boyd, Robert A ^a   Hogstrom, Kenneth R ^a   White, R Allen ^a   Starkschall, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

PENCIL-BEAM REDEFINITION ALGORITHMS (PBRA);

ELECTRON BEAMS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON PENCIL-BEAM REDEFINATION ALGORITHM; ELECTRON RADIATION; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENT; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RADIATION SCATTERING; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

AIR; ALGORITHMS; BONE AND BONES; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 0034763445     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/46/11/306     Document Type: Article

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