A Monte Carlo study on internal wedges using BEAM

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 876-885

  Van der Zee, W ^a   Welleweerd, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; STATISTICS; COLLIMATOR; DOSE CALCULATION; ENERGY; INSTRUMENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

HARDENING; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; RADIATION HARDENING; TRANSMISSIONS;

BEAM HARDENING; CALCULATED VALUES; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; OUTPUT FACTORS; RADIATION FIELD; REFERENCE CONDITION; SCATTERED RADIATIONS; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 0035999418     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1473132     Document Type: Article

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