Monte Carlo dose calculations in conventional thorax fields for 60Co photons

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 341-350

  Mesbahi, Asghar ^a   Allahverdi, Mahmoud ^b   Gheraati, Hossein ^b  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Effective path length method; MCNP4C; Monte Carlo modeling; Photon dose calculation

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX;

EID: 24644513953     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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