Transmission and dose perturbations with high-Z materials in clinical electron beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3213-3221

  Das, Indra J ^a   Cheng, Chee Wai ^b   Mitra, Raj K ^c   Kassaee, Alireza ^a   Tochner, Zelig ^a   Solin, Lawrence J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Arizona Oncology Associates   (United States)

^c OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose perturbation; Electron beam; High Z interface; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

CLINICAL ELECTRON BEAMS; CRITICAL STRUCTURES; DOSE PERTURBATION; ELECTRON ENERGIES; ELECTRON TRANSMISSION; METALLIC INTERFACES; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION; TRANSMISSION CURVE;

TRANSMISSIONS;

ALUMINUM; COPPER; LEAD; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON ACCELERATOR; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 11244318406     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1819551     Document Type: Article

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