Optimal flattening filter shape of a surface brachytherapy applicator

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 723-735

  Jeraj, Robert ^a,b   Sarvary, Attila ^b   Kron, Tomas ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^d LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; SURGERY; TISSUE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BRACHYTHERAPY APPLICATOR;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FILTER; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SURFACE PROPERTY; X IRRADIATION;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; X-RAYS;

EID: 0037034613     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/5/303     Document Type: Article

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