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Dosimetric investigation of dual energy photon beams with assymmetric collimator jaws

Polish Journal of Medical Physics and Engineering
Volume 14 (2008): Issue 1 (March 2008)
By: C. Varatharaj,  M. Ravikumar,  Sanjay Supe,  S. Sathiyan,  K. Ganesh and  T. Arunkumar  
Open Access
|Dec 2008

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10013-008-0004-2 | Journal eISSN: 1898-0309 | Journal ISSN: 1425-4689
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Language: English
Page range: 33 - 46
Published on: Dec 29, 2008
Published by: Polish Society of Medical Physics
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
Keywords:
asymmetric field,
half value layer,
field size factor,
percentage depth dose,
beam penumbra
Related subjects:
Medicine,
Biomedical engineering,
Physics,
Technical and applied physics,
Medical physics

© 2008 C. Varatharaj, M. Ravikumar, Sanjay Supe, S. Sathiyan, K. Ganesh, T. Arunkumar, published by Polish Society of Medical Physics
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License.

Volume 14 (2008): Issue 1 (March 2008)