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Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1931-1942

Multisource modeling of flattening filter free (FFF) beam and the optimization of model parameters

Author keywords

beam source model; flattening filter free beam; head scatter; optimization; TrueBeam

Indexed keywords

LINEAR ACCELERATORS; NEUTRON EMISSION; ONCOLOGY; PHOTONS;

EID: 79953653358     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3560426     Document Type: Article
Times cited : (30)

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