Treatment head disassembly to improve the accuracy of large electron field simulation

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4577-4591

  Faddegon, Bruce A ^a   Sawkey, Daren ^a   O'Shea, Tuathan ^a   McEwen, Malcolm ^b   Ross, Carl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beam model; Electron therapy; Monte Carlo; Treatment head simulation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; GEOMETRY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETS; MANUFACTURE; PHASE SPACE METHODS; SPECIFICATIONS; WATER TREATMENT;

BEAM MODEL; CLINICAL ELECTRON BEAMS; COMPONENT GEOMETRIES; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; GEOMETRY PARAMETER; PHASE-SPACE FILES; TREATMENT HEAD SIMULATION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON THERAPY; GEOMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 70349667185     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3218764     Document Type: Article

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