The effect of a metal hip prosthesis on the radiation dose in therapeutic photon beam irradiations

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 17-23

  Lin, Sung Yen ^a   Chu, Tieh Chi ^a   Lin, Jao Perng ^b   Liu, Mu Tai ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Convolution superposition algorithm; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

COBALT ALLOYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIP PROSTHESES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; X RAY SCATTERING;

RADIATION DOSE PROFILES;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALLOY; ALUMINUM DERIVATIVE; CHROMIUM DERIVATIVE; COBALT DERIVATIVE; METAL; MOLYBDENUM; TITANIUM DERIVATIVE; WATER;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; DENSITY; DOSE CALCULATION; HIP; HIP PROSTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; X RAY;

EID: 0036103853     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(02)00078-7     Document Type: Article

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