A Monte Carlo study of a flattening filter-free linear accelerator verified with measurements

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 7333-7344

  Dalaryd, Mårten ^a,b   Kragl, Gabriele ^c   Ceberg, Crister ^b   Georg, Dietmar ^c   McClean, Brendan ^d   Af Wetterstedt, Sacha ^a   Wieslander, Elinore ^a   Knöös, Tommy ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM LINES; CENTRAL AXIS; COPPER PLATE; FIELD SIZE; FLATTENING FILTERS; MEAN ENERGY; MEASURED DATA; MONTE CARLO MODEL; MONTE CARLO STUDY; OFF-AXIS; PHOTON BEAMS; PHOTON ENERGY SPECTRUM; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; SCATTERED PHOTONS;

LIGHT SCATTERING; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; SPECTROSCOPY;

PHOTONS;

COPPER;

ARTICLE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING;

COPPER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 78650054821     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/23/010     Document Type: Article

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