Monte Carlo comparison of superficial dose between flattening filter free and flattened beams

Physica Medica

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 503-508

  Javedan, Khosrow ^a   Feygelman, Vladimir ^a   Zhang, Ray R ^b   Moros, Eduardo G ^a   Correa, Candace R ^a   Trotti, Andy ^a   Li, Weiqi ^a   Zhang, Geoffrey G ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Flattening filter free; Monte Carlo; Skin dose

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON ACCELERATOR; ELECTRON BEAM; FLATTENED BEAM; FLATTENING FILTER FREE BREAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SKIN SURFACE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; RADIATION RESPONSE; SKIN;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SKIN;

EID: 84899485644     PISSN: 11201797     EISSN: 1724191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2014.03.001     Document Type: Article

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