A Monte Carlo model for calculating out-of-field dose from a Varian 6 MV beam

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4405-4413

  Kry, Stephen F ^a   Titt, Uwe ^a   Pönisch, Falk ^a   Followill, David ^a   Vassiliev, Oleg N ^a   Allen White, R ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a   Salehpour, Mohammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Kerma; Monte Carlo; Out of field; Peripheral radiation; Secondary

Indexed keywords

PATIENT TREATMENT; PHANTOMS; WATER TANKS;

DEGREE OF FLEXIBILITY; KERMA; MONTE CARLO MODEL; OUT-OF-FIELD; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; SECONDARY; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS; TREATMENT PLANS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

EID: 33750551507     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2360013     Document Type: Article

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