MCNPX simulation of a multileaf collimator

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 402-404

  Pönisch, Falk ^a   Titt, Uwe ^a   Kry, Stephen F ^a   Vassiliev, Oleg N ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

MLC; Monte Carlo; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

DEPTH DOSE; MONTE CARLO MODEL; MONTE CARLO RESULTS; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; SIMULATION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE;

EID: 31844434458     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2163833     Document Type: Article

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