Monte Carlo calculations of correction factors for plastic phantoms in clinical photon and electron beam dosimetry

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2992-3001

  Araki, Fujio ^a   Hanyu, Yuji ^b   Fukuoka, Miyoko ^b   Matsumoto, Kenji ^c   Okumura, Masahiko ^c   Oguchi, Hiroshi ^d  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER EAST   (Japan)

^c KINDAI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d SHINSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chamber dependent fluence correction factor; Fluence correction factor; Monte Carlo calculations; Wall correction factor; Water to plastic ionization conversion factor

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAMS; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS; PLASTICS;

COMBINED UNCERTAINTY; CONVERSION FACTOR; CORRECTION FACTORS; ELECTRON BEAM DOSIMETRY; FLUENCE CORRECTION FACTORS; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; PLANE PARALLEL IONIZATION CHAMBER; WALL CORRECTION FACTORS;

DRIERS (MATERIALS);

PLASTIC; WATER;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 67649631662     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3151809     Document Type: Article

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