Monitor unit calculations for range-modulated spread-out Bragg peak fields

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 2797-2808

  Kooy, Hanne M ^a   Schaefer, Matthew ^a   Rosenthal, Skip ^a   Bortfeld, Thomas ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION; LIGHT MODULATION; PROTONS;

IONIZATION REFERENCE CHAMBERS;

BRAGG CELLS;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODULATION; OBSERVATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION MONITORING; THEORY;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTONS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0141737541     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/17/305     Document Type: Article

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