Potential for focused beam orthovoltage therapy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7806, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mahato, Dip N ^a,b   MacDonald, C A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose; Orthovoltage therapy; Radiation therapy; X ray focusing; X ray optics

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; DEPTH DOSE; DOSE; FOCAL SPOT SIZE; FOCUSED BEAMS; HIGH-ENERGY PHOTON BEAMS; LOW ENERGY X RAYS; ORTHOVOLTAGE; ORTHOVOLTAGE THERAPY; PHANTOM THICKNESS; POLYCAPILLARY OPTICS; RADIATION THERAPY; SINGLE BEAM; SKIN DOSE; SKIN SURFACES; TUMOR DOSE; X-RAY FOCUSING;

FOCUSING; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS; X RAYS;

RADIATION;

EID: 78049410398     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.861764     Document Type: Conference Paper

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