Validation of Monte Carlo calculated surface doses for megavoltage photon beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 286-298

  Abdel Rahman, Wamied ^a   Seuntjens, Jan P ^a   Verhaegen, Frank ^a   Deblois, François ^a   Podgorsak, Ervin B ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Build up region; Extrapolation chamber; Megavoltage photon beams; Monte Carlo calculations; Surface dose

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; X RAYS;

BUILD-UP REGION; EXTRAPOLATION CHAMBER; MEGAVOLTAGE PHOTONS; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; SURFACE DOSE;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY; IONIZATION; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS; X RAY;

EID: 12844269162     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1829401     Document Type: Article

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