A consistency monitor for radiation therapy treatments

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1805-1808

  Paliwal, Bhudatt R ^a   Zaini, Mehran ^a   McNutt, Todd ^a   Fairbanks, E Jeffrey ^a   Kitchen, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

radiotherapy; transmission chamber; treatment consistency

Indexed keywords

TRANSMISSIONS;

FIELD SIZE; MONITOR UNITS; RADIATION THERAPY TREATMENT; TRANSPARENT TRANSMISSION; TREATMENT CONSISTENCY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION MONITORING;

EID: 0029828702     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597762     Document Type: Article

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