Sensitivity of large-field electron beams to variations in a Monte Carlo accelerator model

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 769-778

  Schreiber, E C ^a   Faddegon, B A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BEAM MODELS; DOSE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRON FIELDS; LATERAL ALIGNMENT;

ELECTRON BEAMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; ENERGY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

ELECTRONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 16444364352     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/5/003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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