Verification of milled two-dimensional photon compensating filters using an electronic portal imaging device

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 929-938

  Low, Daniel A ^a   Li, Zuofeng ^a,b   Klein, Eric E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Photon compensating filters; Quality assurance; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; MILLING (MACHINING); MILLING MACHINES; PHOTONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; THICKNESS CONTROL;

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; COMPLEX CURVED SURFACE; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; LIQUID IONIZATION CHAMBERS; QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCEDURES; SECOND-ORDER POLYNOMIAL; SPATIAL MEASUREMENTS; THICKNESS DISTRIBUTIONS;

MODULATION;

ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 0029929964     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597856     Document Type: Article

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