Dosimetric characteristics of 6 and 10 MV unflattened photon beams

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 141-146

  Kragl, Gabriele ^a   af Wetterstedt, Sacha ^b   Knäusl, Barbara ^a   Lind, Mårten ^c   McCavana, Patrick ^b   Knöös, Tommy ^c   McClean, Brendan ^b   Georg, Dietmar ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Basic beam properties; Flattening filter free (FFF); IMRT

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; FILTER; FLATTENING FILTER FREE; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FILTRATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70349315242     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2009.06.008     Document Type: Article

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