Build-up and surface dose measurements on phantoms using micro-MOSFET in 6 and 10 MV x-ray beams and comparisons with Monte Carlo calculations

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1266-1273

  Xiang, Hong F ^a   Song, Jun S ^a   Chin, David W H ^a   Cormack, Robert A ^a   Tishler, Roy B ^a   Makrigiorgos, G Mike ^a   Court, Laurence E ^a   Chin, Lee M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer radiotherapy; Head and neck IMRT; Micro MOSFET; Monte Carlo simulation; Skin dose; Surface dose

Indexed keywords

IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MOSFET DEVICES; PHANTOMS; X RAYS;

BREAST CANCER; HEAD AND NECK IMRT; MOS-FET; SKIN DOSE; SURFACE DOSE;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; SKIN SURFACE; X RAY;

EID: 34147113234     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2710951     Document Type: Article

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