Comment on "Testing of the analytical anisotropic algorithm for photon dose calculation" [Med. Phys. 33, 4130-4148 (2006)]

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3414-

  Ding, George X ^a   Duggan, Dennis M ^a   Coffey, Charles W ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSE CALCULATION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LETTER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD;

EID: 34547481017     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2752375     Document Type: Letter

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