Monte Carlo study of TLD measurements in air cavities

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 18, 2003, Pages

  Haraldsson, Pia ^a   Knöös, Tommy ^b   Nyström, Håkan ^a   Engström, Per ^a  

^a FINSEN LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGENS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS (TPS);

DOSIMETRY;

ACCURACY; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON BEAM; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUBE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NASAL CAVITY; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY;

EID: 0141559028     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/18/401     Document Type: Article

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