Study of dosimetric water equivalency of PRESAGE® for megavoltage and kilovoltage x-ray beams

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Volumn 250, Issue , 2010, Pages 244-248

  Gorjiara, Tina ^a   Hill, Robin ^a,b   Kim, Jung Ha ^a   Kuncic, Zdenka ^a   Adamovics, John ^c   Baldock, Clive ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

DEPTH DOSE; HALOGEN CONTENTS; MEGAVOLTAGE; WATER EQUIVALENCE; WATER EQUIVALENCY; WATER EQUIVALENT; X RAY BEAM;

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 78650581672     PISSN: 17426588     EISSN: 17426596     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/250/1/012053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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