Secondary neutron spectra from modern Varian, Siemens, and Elekta linacs with multileaf collimators

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4027-4038

  Howell, Rebecca M ^a   Kry, Stephen F ^a   Burgett, Eric ^b   Hertel, Nolan E ^b   Followill, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Elekta; Fluence; High energy; MLC; Neutron; Siemens; Spectrum; Varian

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MANUFACTURE; NEUTRON SOURCES; PLASMA INTERACTIONS; SHIELDING;

ELEKTA; FLUENCES; HIGH-ENERGY; SIEMENS; SPECTRUM; VARIAN;

NEUTRONS;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; NEUTRON; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; NEUTRON RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ENERGY;

ALGORITHMS; NEUTRONS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING;

EID: 69549126245     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3159300     Document Type: Article

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