Commissioning 6 MV photon beams of a stereotactic radiosurgery system for Monte Carlo treatment planning

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3124-3134

  Deng, Jun ^a   Ma, C M ^b   Hai, Jenny ^c   Nath, Ravinder ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam commissioning; Monte Carlo simulation; Photon beam; Source model

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

BEAM COMMISSIONING; CLINICAL APPLICATION; FLUENCE DISTRIBUTION; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; PHOTON BEAMS; SOURCE MODELING; STANDARD MEASUREMENTS; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0347625750     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1624753     Document Type: Article

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