Quantifying effects of lead shielding in electron beams: a Monte Carlo study.
Lead shielding in contact with the patient's skin is often encountered in radiotherapy with electron beams. The influence of the lead shielding on dose distributions in the patient cannot fully be assessed using modern treatment planning systems. In this work the problem of quantifying the effe...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2001
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