Dose distribution of narrow beam irradiation for small lung tumor

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1380-1387

  Saitoh, Hidetoshi ^a   Fujisaki, Tatsuya ^b   Sakai, Ryoko ^c   Kunieda, Etsuo ^d  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c Medical Front   (Japan)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dose distribution; EGS4; Lung tumor; STI; X ray energy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TISSUE; TUMORS;

THORAX MODEL;

IRRADIATION;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; IRRADIATION; LUNG TUMOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THORAX;

EID: 0036680150     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(02)02893-6     Document Type: Article

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