A combined dose calculation and verification method for a small animal precision irradiator based on onboard imaging

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4155-4166

  Granton, Patrick V ^a   Podesta, Mark ^a   Landry, Guillaume ^a   Nijsten, Sebastiaan ^a   Bootsma, Gregory ^b,c   Verhaegen, Frank ^a,d  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; portal dosimetry; small animal micro IR

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; X RAY TUBES;

COLLIMATED BEAMS; DETECTOR RESPONSE; DOSE CALCULATION; IR INVESTIGATIONS; MONTE CARLO MODEL; PORTAL DOSIMETRIES; SMALL ANIMAL; VERIFICATION METHOD;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84864260700     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4725710     Document Type: Article

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