Measurement of head scatter factors of linear accelerators with columnar miniphantoms

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1720-1728

  Jursinic, Paul A ^a  

^a West Michigan Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Collimator scatter; Head scatter factor; In air output factor; Miniphantom

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSMISSIONS;

ATOMIC NUMBERS; MASS DENSITIES; MEASUREMENTS OF; MINIPHANTOM; OUTPUT FACTORS; SCATTER FACTOR; WATER EQUIVALENT; X-RAY ENERGIES;

X RAYS;

COPPER; LEAD; WATER;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; DENSITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENERGY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORY; X RAY;

EID: 33744782342     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2201148     Document Type: Article

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