Investigation of systematic uncertainties in Monte Carlo-calculated beam quality correction factors

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 4481-4493

  Wulff, J ^a,b   Heverhagen, J T ^b   Zink, K ^a   Kawrakow, I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONIZATION CHAMBERS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PHOTONS;

CORRECTION FACTORS; CROSS SECTION DATA; MEAN EXCITATION ENERGY; SINGLE COMPONENTS; STANDARD UNCERTAINTY; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; SYSTEMATIC UNCERTAINTIES; TRANSPORT PARAMETERS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

COBALT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 78149290698     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/16/S04     Document Type: Article

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