Forward scatter dose effect at metallic interfaces irradiated by X and gamma ray therapy beams

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 177, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 611-615

  Ravikumar, Manickam ^a   Ravichandran, Ramamoorthy ^a   Supe, Sanjay Sudhakar ^a  

^a KIDWAI MEMORIAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Forward scatter; Inhomogeneity; Interface; Perturbation

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; METAL; POLYSTYRENE; STEEL;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COBALT THERAPY; GAMMA RADIATION; IONIZATION; MEASUREMENT; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; X IRRADIATION;

EID: 0035153896     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00002372     Document Type: Article

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