Total skin electron therapy treatment verification: Monte Carlo simulation and beam characteristics of large non-standard electron fields

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 2783-2796

  Pavón, Ester Carrasco ^a,b   Sánchez Doblado, Francisco ^a,b   Leal, Antonio ^a,b   Capote, Roberto ^a,b   Lagares, Juan Ignacio ^a,b   Perucha, María ^a   Arráns, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; SKIN;

SKIN ELECTRON THERAPY TREATMENT;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ACCURACY; AIR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON THERAPY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOTHERAPY; SKIN DISEASE; T CELL LYMPHOMA;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0141514462     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/17/304     Document Type: Article

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