Monte Carlo study of photon fields from a flattening filter-free clinical accelerator

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 820-827

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRON EMISSION; RADIOTHERAPY;

CONFORMAL THERAPY; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSIMETRIC PROPERTIES; FLATTENING FILTER FREE; FLATTENING FILTERS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MONTE CARLO PROGRAMS; TARGET CURRENTS;

PHOTONS;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON ACCELERATOR; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 33645281627     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2174720     Document Type: Article

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