On empirical methods to determine scatter factors for irregular MLC shaped beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2222-2229

  Georg, Dietmar ^a   Olofsson, Jörgen ^b   Künzler, Thomas ^a   Karlsson, Mikael ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Irregular fields; Output factor in air; Phantom scatter correction factor

Indexed keywords

RADIOTHERAPY;

CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; IRREGULAR FIELDS; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; OUTPUT FACTORS; PENCIL BEAM ALGORITHMS; SCATTER CORRECTION; SEMI-ANALYTICAL METHODS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

PHANTOMS;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; FILTER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 4043083692     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1767695     Document Type: Article

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