Reduced Neutron Production Through Use of a Flattening-Filter-Free Accelerator

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1260-1264

  Kry, Stephen F ^a   Titt, Uwe ^a   Pönisch, Falk ^b   Vassiliev, Oleg N ^a   Salehpour, Mohammad ^a   Gillin, Michael ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activation; Dose equivalent; Flattening filter; IMRT; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Neutron; Risk

Indexed keywords

DOSE EQUIVALENT; FLATTENING FILTERS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY (IMRT);

DOSIMETRY; ONCOLOGY; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK ANALYSIS;

NEUTRON BEAMS;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FILTER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MALE; NEUTRON RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

FILTRATION; HUMANS; MALE; NEUTRONS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHYSICS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 34447274764     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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