The local enhancement of radiation dose from photons of MeV energies obtained by introducing materials of high atomic number into the treatment region

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3543-3548

  Alkhatib, Ahmad ^a   Watanabe, Yoichi ^a,b   Broadhurst, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose enhancement; High Z; MV photon beam; Pair production

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; GOLD; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

DOSE ENHANCEMENTS; ELECTRON-POSITRON PAIRS; HIGH-Z; PAIR PRODUCTION; PHOTON BEAMS; RADIATION TREATMENTS; THRESHOLD ENERGY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

PHOTONS;

ALUMINUM; GOLD; LEAD;

ARTICLE; MATERIALS TESTING; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 68149125573     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3168556     Document Type: Article

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