Compensators for intensity-modulated beams

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 215-220

  Dimitriadis, D M ^a   Fallone, B G ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attenuation model; Compensators; Intensity modulated beams; Penumbra; Scatter

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ELECTRON BEAM; LIGHT SCATTERING; LINEAR SYSTEM; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION;

ALLOYS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036430212     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-3947(02)00139-5     Document Type: Article

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