Photonuclear dose calculations for high-energy photon beams from Siemens and Varian linacs

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1990-2000

  Chibani, Omar ^a   Ma, Chang Ming Charlie ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA PARTICLES; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; GAMMA RAYS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

COMPARISONS WITH MEASUREMENTS; HEAVY CHARGED PARTICLES; HETEROGENEITY EFFECTS; HIGH-ENERGY PHOTON BEAMS; MODULATION SCALING FACTORS; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; RISK ASSESSMENT METHODS; TISSUE EQUIVALENT PHANTOM;

NEUTRONS;

PROTON;

ALPHA RADIATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER RISK; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE EQUIVALENT RATIO; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; ENERGY TRANSFER; GAMMA RADIATION; INSTRUMENT; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MACHINE; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; NEUTRON RADIATION; PARAMETER; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION RESPONSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0041387389     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1590436     Document Type: Article

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