Physical aspects of dynamic stereotactic radiosurgery with very small photon beams (1.5 and 3 mm in diameter)

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 111-118

  Paskalev, Kamen A ^a,b   Seuntjens, Jan P ^a   Patrocinio, Horacio J ^a   Podgorsak, Ervin B ^a  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo simulations; Small fields dosimetry; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DYNAMIC ROTATION; MONTE CARLO CODES; PHYSICAL ASPECTS; RADIATION SOURCE; RADIOGRAPHIC FILMS; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

WATER;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CALIBRATION; COLLIMATOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DENSITY; DOSE CALCULATION; DYNAMICS; FILM; HEAD; HUMAN; MACHINE; MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0037323117     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1536290     Document Type: Article

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