A beam source model for scanned proton beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3151-3168

  Kimstrand, Peter ^a   Traneus, Erik ^b   Ahnesjö, Anders ^a,b   Grusell, Erik ^a   Glimelius, Bengt ^a   Tilly, Nina ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Elekta AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETERS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; GAMMA RAYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BEAM LINES; BEAM SOURCE MODELS; DOSE CALCULATIONS; SCANNED PROTON BEAMS;

PROTON BEAMS;

WATER;

AIR; ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GAMMA RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PROTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 34249071653     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/11/015     Document Type: Article

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