A methodological approach to reporting corrected small field relative outputs

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 350-355

  Cranmer Sargison, Gavin ^a,b   Charles, Paul H ^c   Trapp, Jamie V ^c   Thwaites, David I ^b,d  

^a SASKATCHEWAN CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Small field dosimetry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE; DOSIMETRY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; METRIC SYSTEM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; UNCERTAINTY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY;

MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84890125702     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2013.10.002     Document Type: Article

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