Beam quality and dose perturbation of 6MV flattening-filter-free linac

Physica Medica

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 47-56

  Tsiamas, P ^a,b   Sajo, E ^c   Cifter, F ^c   Theodorou, K ^b   Kappas, C ^b   Makrigiorgos, M ^a   Marcus, K ^a   Zygmanski, P ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose enhanced radiation therapy; Flattening filter free; Monte Carlo; Photon fluence

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; GOLD;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IRRADIATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; NOISE REDUCTION; PHOTON; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION FIELD;

DOSE ENHANCED RADIATION THERAPY; FLATTENING-FILTER-FREE; MONTE CARLO; PHOTON FLUENCE;

MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84890119444     PISSN: 11201797     EISSN: 1724191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2013.02.004     Document Type: Article

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