A virtual source model of electron contamination of a therapeutic photon beam

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 7329-7344

  Sikora, M ^a   Alber, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORT; ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRON CONTAMINATION; ELECTRON DOSE; ENERGETIC PROPERTIES; ENERGY DEPENDENT; FIELD SIZE; FLATTENING FILTERS; GAUSSIAN SOURCES; MC SIMULATION; MEAN ENERGY; MONTE CARLO; PARTICLE FLUENCE; PARTICLE GENERATION; PATIENT GEOMETRIES; PHOTON BEAMS; PHOTON SOURCES; PRIMARY PHOTONS; SEGMENT SHAPE; SURFACE DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; TUNABLE PARAMETER; VIRTUAL SOURCES;

CONTAMINATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS; SIMULATORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

ELECTRONS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON; ENERGY; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENERGY TRANSFER; KERNEL METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WATER;

EID: 71949090903     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/24/006     Document Type: Article

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