An investigation of energy spectrum and lineal energy variations in mega-voltage photon beams used for radiotherapy

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 99, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 425-427

  Liu, H H ^a   Verhaegen, F ^b   Cherubini, R ^c   Goodhead, D T ^c   Menzel, H G ^c   Ottolenghi, A ^c  

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

^b NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60; COBALT;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CALCULATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; MICRODOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFERENCE VALUE; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY;

COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 0036023832     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006824     Document Type: Article

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