Medical Dosimetry
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 200-203 , Autumn 2007

Experimental Investigation of the Implementation of Fermi-Eyges-Hogstrom Electron Beam Model of the Pinnacle3 System at Extended SSDs

  • Muthana Al-Ghazi, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Muthana Al-Ghazi, Ph.D., Department of Radiation Oncology, Building 23, RT 26, University of California Irvine Medical Center, 101 The City Drive, Orange, CA 92868.
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  • Varun Sehgal, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA
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  • Robert Sanford, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
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  • Heeteak Chung, M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Received 4 October 2005 ,Accepted 29 January 2007.

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PII: S0958-3947(07)00042-8

doi: 10.1016/j.meddos.2007.01.012

Medical Dosimetry
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 200-203 , Autumn 2007

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