Analysis of the penumbra enlargement in lung versus the Quality Index of photon beams: A methodology to check the dose calculation algorithm

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 943-949

  Tsiakalos, Miltiadis F ^a,c   Theodorou, Kiki ^a   Kappas, Constantin ^a   Zefkili, Sofia ^b   Rosenwold, Jean Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; ELECTRONIC ASSESSMENT; FORECASTING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; POLYSTYRENES; TUMORS;

CORRECTION FACTORS; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRONIC EQUILIBRIUM; FILM MEASUREMENT; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; QUALITY INDICES; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; LUNG; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 1942420351     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1669085     Document Type: Article

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