IORT apparatus design improvement through the evaluation of electron spectral distributions using Monte Carlo methods

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 215-220

  Price, Robert A ^a,b   Ayyangar, Komanduri M ^b  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron beam; Energy spectra; IORT; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SPECTROSCOPY;

APPARATUS DESIGN; BEAM CHARACTERISTICS; DESIGN IMPROVEMENTS; ELECTRON-BEAM; ENERGY SPECTRUM; EXTERNAL BEAM; IORT; MONTE CARLO; MONTECARLO METHODS; SPECTRAL DISTRIBUTION;

ELECTRON BEAMS;

SCATTER FACTOR;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0343851590     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598886     Document Type: Article

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