Automatic determination of primary electron beam parameters in Monte Carlo simulation

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1076-1084

  Pena, Javier ^a   González Castaño, Diego M ^a   Gómez, Faustino ^a   Sánchez Doblado, Francisco ^b   Hartmann, Guenther H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

FWHM determination; Linac simulation; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS;

AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION; COMMISSIONING PROCESS; FULLY AUTOMATED; LINAC SIMULATION; PHOTON BEAMS; PRIMARY ELECTRON BEAMS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALCULATION; DATA BASE; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FIELD EMISSION; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 33847640090     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2514155     Document Type: Article

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