Quantitative evaluation of radiochromic film response for two- dimensional dosimetry

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 223-231

  Zhu, Yimin ^a,d   Kirov, Assen S ^a   Mishra, Vivek ^b   Meigooni, Ali S ^c   Williamson, Jeffrey F ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

double exposure technique; linearity; radiochromic film densitometry; reproducibility; uniformity

Indexed keywords

DENSITOMETERS; DOSIMETERS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; ONCOLOGY; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SCANNING;

DOUBLE EXPOSURE; LINEARITY; RADIOCHROMIC FILM; REPRODUCIBILITIES; UNIFORMITY;

PIXELS;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; FILM DOSIMETER; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODENSITOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TECHNIQUE; X RAY;

EID: 0031045089     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598068     Document Type: Article

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