Comparison of characteristics of photon and electron beams generated by Philips/Elekta and Varian linear accelerators

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 960-966

  Song, Haijun ^a   Xiao, Ying ^a   Galvin, James M ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commissioning; Linear accelerator; Philips Elekta; TG 51; Varian

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; ELECTRON; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; PHOTON; RADIOMETRY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MODEL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ELECTRONS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

ELECTRON BEAMS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MANUFACTURE; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS;

COMMISSIONING; PHILIPS; PHOTON BEAMS; QUALITY GUIDELINES; TG-51; VARIAN; VARIAN LINEAR ACCELERATORS; VIRTUAL SOURCES;

LINEAR ACCELERATORS;

EID: 0035989939     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1477232     Document Type: Article

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