Monte Carlo simulation of MOSFET detectors for high-energy photon beams using the PENELOPE code

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 303-316

  Panettieri, Vanessa ^a   Duch, Maria Amor ^a   Jornet, Núria ^b   Ginjaume, Mercè ^a   Carrasco, Pablo ^b   Badal, Andreu ^a   Ortega, Xavier ^a   Ribas, Montserrat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MOSFET DEVICES; PHOTONS; POSITRONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

ATOMIC NUMBER; HIGH-ENERGY PHOTON BEAMS; PENELOPE CODE;

DETECTORS;

EPOXY RESIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DOSIMETER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR FIELD EFFECT TRANSITOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SEMICONDUCTOR; X RAY; ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIOMETRY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; X-RAYS;

EID: 34247510773     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/1/020     Document Type: Article

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