Monte Carlo dosimetric evaluation of high energy vs low energy photon beams in low density tissues

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 131-138

  Tsiakalos, Miltiadis F ^a   Stathakis, Sotirios ^a   Plataniotis, George A ^a   Kappas, Constantin ^a   Theodorou, Kiki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Energy choice; Heterogeneities; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; EVALUATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG TUMOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION FIELD; SIMULATION;

EID: 33646176967     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2006.02.012     Document Type: Article

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