Dose perturbations at interfaces in photon beams: Secondary electron transport
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Medical Physics
- Vol. 17 (2), 212-226
- https://doi.org/10.1118/1.596500
Abstract
An improved, quantitative version of the partial fluence model [Med. Phys. 14, 585 (1987)] for the calculation of dose perturbations at media interfaces in photon beams is presented and compared with measurements made at interfaces between polystyrene and materials ranging in atomic number from aluminum to lead, for photon beams ranging in energy from 60Co to 24 MV.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Cancer Institute (R01 CA38180)
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