Study of the response of plastic scintillation detectors in small-field 6 MV photon beams by Monte Carlo simulations

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1596-1599

  Wang, Lilie L W ^a   Beddar, Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo simulations; plastic scintillation detectors; small field photon beams

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS; SCINTILLATION;

AIR-CORE FIBERS; ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; INCIDENT BEAMS; PARALLEL ORIENTATION; PERPENDICULAR ORIENTATION; PHOTON BEAMS; PLASTIC SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; SENSITIVE REGIONS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 79952137211     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3554644     Document Type: Article

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