A comprehensive procedure for characterizing arbitrary azimuthally symmetric photon beams

Physica Medica

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 191-201

  Ezzati, Ahad Ollah ^a   Sohrabpour, Mostafa ^a   Mahdavi, Seied Rabi ^b   Buzurovic, Ivan ^c   Studenski, Matthew T ^d  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; Phase space file; Radiotherapy; Source model

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY AZIMUTHALLY SYMMETRIC PHOTON BEAM; ARTICLE; ELECTRON BEAM; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIPLE POINT SOURCE; PHASE SPACE FILE; PHOTON; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; SPATIAL MESH BASED SURFACE SOURCE; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; VALIDATION STUDY;

MONTE CARLO; PHASE SPACE FILE; RADIOTHERAPY; SOURCE MODEL;

MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84893799735     PISSN: 11201797     EISSN: 1724191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2013.05.040     Document Type: Article

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