Commissioning measurements for photon beam data on three TrueBeam linear accelerators, and comparison with Trilogy and Clinac 2100 linear accelerators

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 273-288

  Beyera, Gloria ^a,b  

^a Medical Physics Services LLC   (United States)

^b Medical Physics Services International Ltd   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Commissioning; Flattening filter free data; linear accelerator; Photon beam data; Standard beam dataset

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873558691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v14i1.4077     Document Type: Article

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