Properties of unflattened photon beams shaped by a multileaf collimator

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1738-1746

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; Multileaf collimator; Unflattened photon beam

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS;

FLATTENED BEAMS; FLATTENING FILTER FREE; FLATTENING FILTERS; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; PHOTON BEAMS; SCATTER FACTOR; SHAPED BEAM; UNFLATTENED PHOTON BEAM;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; ENERGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIMULATION;

EID: 33744811445     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2201149     Document Type: Article

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