Development of a CCD array imaging system for measurement of dose distributions in doped agarose gels

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1521-1525

  Tarte, B J ^a   Jardine, P A ^a   Van Doorn, T ^a   Nitschke, K N ^b   Poulsen, M G ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Queensland Radium Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agarose gel; CCD camera; Radiation dosimetry

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DATA ACQUISITION; DOSIMETRY; GELS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; LASER APPLICATIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AGAROSE GEL; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; LASER SCANNING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL PLATES; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION-INDUCED; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WHITE-LIGHT ILLUMINATION;

CCD CAMERAS;

AGAROSE;

ANTENNA; ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0030801741     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598041     Document Type: Article

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