A beam-matching concept for medical linear accelerators

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 192-200

  Sjöström, David ^a,b   Bjelkengren, Ulf ^a   Ottosson, Wiviann ^a   Behrens, Claus F ^a  

^a Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^b GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRON BEAM; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

CALIBRATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 60549099223     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860802258794     Document Type: Article

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