The water equivalence of solid phantoms for low energy photon beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4355-4363

  Hill, Robin ^a,b   Kuncic, Zdenka ^a   Baldock, Clive ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

kilovoltage x rays; Monte Carlo; solid phantoms; water equivalence

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; POLYSTYRENES; X RAYS;

LOW ENERGY PHOTONS; MONTE CARLO CODES; PHANTOM MATERIALS; PLASTIC WATERS; PRIMARY PHOTONS; SOLID PHANTOMS; WATER EQUIVALENCE; WATER EQUIVALENT;

PHANTOMS;

WATER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WATER;

EID: 78149484465     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3462558     Document Type: Article

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