Photon beam quality variations of a flattening filter free linear accelerator

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 49-53

  Georg, Dietmar ^a   Kragl, Gabriele ^a   Af Wetterstedt, Sacha ^b   McCavana, Patrick ^b   McClean, Brendan ^b   Knöös, Tommy ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Half value layer; Off axis energy variation; Unflattened beams

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS;

ATTENUATION MEASUREMENTS; ENERGY VARIATIONS; FLATTENING FILTER FREE; FLATTENING FILTERS; HALF VALUE LAYER; PINHOLE COLLIMATORS; RADIATION DELIVERY; UNFLATTENED BEAMS;

LINEAR ACCELERATORS;

EID: 73649083321     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3264617     Document Type: Article

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