Commissioning of a medical accelerator photon beam Monte Carlo simulation using wide-field profiles

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 4929-4942

  Pena, Javier ^a   Franco, L ^a   Gomez F ^a   Iglesias, A ^a   Lobato, R ^b   Mosquera, J ^b   Pazos, A ^a   Pardo, J ^a   Pombar, M ^b   Rodriguez A ^a   Sendon J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b Instituto de Salud Carlos III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ENERGY DETERMINATIONS; MEDICAL ACCELERATORS; WIDE FIELD LATERAL PROFILES;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION EQUIPMENT; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 8544266058     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/21/006     Document Type: Article

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