Treatment vault shielding for a flattening filter-free medical linear accelerator

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1265-1273

  Kry, Stephen F ^a   Howell, Rebecca M ^a   Polf, Jerimy ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a   Vassiliev, Oleg N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE ENERGIES; DUAL ENERGIES; FLATTENED BEAMS; FLATTENING FILTERS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES; PRIMARY BEAMS; SCATTER FRACTIONS; SHIELDING DATUM; SHIELDING PARAMETERS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ACCELERATOR SHIELDING; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIATION SHIELDING; SHIELDING; TARGETS;

RADIATION PROTECTION;

ALBEDO; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIATION SHIELD;

HUMANS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 63649124150     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/5/011     Document Type: Article

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