Performance characteristics of the Pantak Therapax-150 superficial X-ray treatment machine: Measurements and calculations.

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 162-167

  Natto, S S A ^a  

^a UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Beam quality; Central axis depth dose; Field uniformity; MCNP; X ray

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIATION;

FOCAL SKIN DISTANCES (FSD);

X RAY APPARATUS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENT; MACHINE; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SKIN; X RAY; X RAY TUBE;

EID: 0036993451     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03178289     Document Type: Article

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