Open AccessTissue composition effect on dose distribution in radiotherapy with a 6 MV photon beam of a medical linac
Author(s) -
Mahdi Ghorbani,
Atefeh Vejdani Noghreiyan,
Zahra Tabatabaei,
Delaram Pakravan,
David Davenport
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_706_16
Subject(s) - soft tissue , imaging phantom , linear particle accelerator , photon , nuclear medicine , dosimetry , relative biological effectiveness , materials science , adipose tissue , radiation , beam (structure) , biomedical engineering , physics , medicine , optics , pathology , endocrinology
The aim of this study is to evaluate soft-tissue composition effect on dose distribution for various soft tissues in radiotherapy with a 6 MV photon beam of a medical linac.