Radiation therapy with unflattened photon beams: Dosimetric accuracy of advanced dose calculation algorithms

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 417-423

  Kragl, Gabriele ^a   Albrich, David ^a   Georg, Dietmar ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dose calculation accuracy; Flattening filter free (FFF); IMRT

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ENHANCED COLLAPSED CONE ALGORITHM; FEMALE; FLATTENED PHOTON BEAM; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MALE; MONACO; PHANTOM; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIOCHROMATOGRAPHY; THORAX; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNFLATTENED PHOTON BEAM; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SCATTERING, RADIATION; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80054055412     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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