Influence of focal spot on characteristics of very small diameter radiosurgical beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 3317-3330

  Sham, Edwin ^a   Seuntjens, Jan ^a   Devic, Slobodan ^a   Podgorsak, Ervin B ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beam profile; Extra focal radiation; Head scatter factor; Linac focal spot; Monte Carlo simulations; Percentage depth dose; Very small diameter radiosurgical x ray beams

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

BEAM PROFILES; DEPTH DOSE; FOCAL SPOT; SCATTER FACTOR; X RAY BEAM;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DEVICE; GEOMETRY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; X RAY;

EID: 46149116346     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2936335     Document Type: Article

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