Determination of the beam quality index of high-energy photon beams under nonstandard reference conditions

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 5513-5519

  Palmans, Hugo ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

analytical model; beam quality; nonstandard reference conditions; photon beams

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; BEAM QUALITY; DOSIMETRY; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

ELECTRON CONTAMINATION; EXPONENTIAL MODELS; HIGH-ENERGY PHOTON BEAMS; HIGHER ENERGY BEAMS; LINEAR APPROXIMATIONS; PHOTON BEAMS; PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATION; REFERENCE CONDITION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84866064928     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4745565     Document Type: Article

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