Determination of the quality index (Q) for photon beams at arbitrary field sizes

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4168-4172

  Sauer, Otto A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beam quality index; Small photon beams

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY;

CODES OF PRACTICE; CORRECTION FACTORS; FLATTENING FILTER FREE; HIGH-ENERGY PHOTON BEAMS; PHOTON BEAMS; QUALITY INDICES; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; STANDARD CONDITIONS;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CYBERKNIFE; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY; FILTER; PARAMETER; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY INDEX; RADIATION FIELD; TOMOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 69549129489     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3197062     Document Type: Article

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