Evaluation of the eclipse electron Monte Carlo dose calculation for small fields

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 75-85

  Xu, Zhigang ^a   Walsh, Sarah E ^a   Telivala, Tejas P ^a   Meek, Allen G ^a   Yang, Guozhen ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron beam; Extended SSD; Monte carlo; MU calculation; Small fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749246132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v10i3.2834     Document Type: Article

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