Investigation of the neutron contamination in IMRT deliveries with a paired magnesium and boron coated magnesium ionization chamber system

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 182-186

  Becker, Julian ^a   Brunckhorst, Elin ^a   Schmidt, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

IMRT; Neutron contamination in high energy photon fields; Neutrons; Paired chamber system

Indexed keywords

BORON; MAGNESIUM;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MEASUREMENT; NEUTRON; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BORON; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNESIUM; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 38949162981     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.10.033     Document Type: Article

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