Technical note: Overprediction of dose with default PRESTA-I boundary crossing in DOSXYZnrc and BEAMnrc

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 647-650

  Walters, B R B ^a   Kawrakow, I ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accurate dose calculations; EGSnrc

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS;

BOUNDARY CROSSING; DOSE CALCULATION; EGSNRC; HIGH ENERGY ELECTRON BEAMS; SINGLE SCATTERING; TECHNICAL NOTES;

CHARGED PARTICLES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33846609500     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2402342     Document Type: Article

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