The effect of a carbon-fiber couch on the depth-dose curves and transmission properties for megavoltage photon beams

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-48

  Poppe, Björn ^a,b   Chofor, Ndimofor ^a,b   Rühmann, Antje ^a   Kunth, Wolfgang ^a   Djouguela, Armand ^a,b   Kollhoff, Ralf ^a   Willborn, Kay C ^a  

^a PIUS HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Depth dose curves; Surface dose; Tabletop; Transmission factors

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBER;

ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; PHOTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; SKIN; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BEDS; CARBON; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 33846406387     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-007-1582-8     Document Type: Article

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