Beam characteristics and stopping-power ratios of small radiosurgery photon beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 5509-5521

  Ding, George X ^a   Ding, Frances ^b  

^a VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Ravenwood High School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM CHARACTERISTICS; CIRCULAR CONES; DOSIMETRIC PARAMETER; ENERGY CHANGES; ENERGY SPECTRA; ENERGY VARIATIONS; FIELD SIZE; FLATTENING FILTERS; HIGH-DOSE RATE; INCIDENT ELECTRONS; INTERMEDIATE FIELDS; MEAN ENERGY; MEGAVOLTAGE; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PARTICLE FLUENCE; PHOTON BEAMS; PHOTON FIELDS; PRIMARY RADIATIONS; RADIOSURGERY; REFERENCE FIELD; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS;

DOSIMETERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; SPECTROSCOPY;

DOSIMETRY;

WATER;

AIR; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOSURGERY;

AIR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; RADIOSURGERY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; WATER;

EID: 84865106521     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/17/5509     Document Type: Article

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