A multi-plane source model for out-of-field head scatter dose calculations in external beam photon therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 7725-7739

  Benadjaoud, Mohamed Amine ^a,b,c   Bezin, Jérémi ^a,b,c   Veres, Attila ^d   Lefkopoulos, Dimitri ^b   Chavaudra, Jean ^b   Bridier, André ^b   De Vathaire, Florent ^a,b,c   Diallo, Ibrahima ^a,b,c  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POPULATION HEALTH   (France)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d Equal Estro Laboratory   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM AXIS; COMPTON FORMULA; DOSE CALCULATION; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; EXTERNAL BEAM; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HIGH ENERGY PHOTONS; MULTISOURCES; PHASE FUNCTIONS; PLANAR SOURCES; RADIATION INTENSITY; SCATTER RADIATION; SCATTERED PHOTONS; SCATTERING CHAR-ACTERISTICS; SOURCE MODELS;

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT SCATTERING;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84869066409     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/22/7725     Document Type: Article

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