A generalized extension to the Hounsell-Wilkinson head scatter model

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 17, 2004, Pages

  Byrne, John ^a   Lambert, G ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILTERS; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SCATTERING;

IRREGULARLY SHAPED FIELDS; JAWS; LINACS; SCATTER-PLANE SOURCE;

LINEAR ACCELERATORS;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FILTER; HEAD; JAW; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MAXILLA; METHODOLOGY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SCATTERING;

BIOPHYSICS; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 4544315265     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/17/N02     Document Type: Article

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