Quality assurance of the dose delivered by small radiation segments

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2665-2675

  Hansen, Vibeke N ^a   Evans, Philip M ^a   Budgell, Geoffrey J ^b   Mott, Judith H L ^b   Williams, Peter C ^b   Brugmans, Marco J P ^c   Wittkämper, Frits W ^c   Mijnheer, Ben J ^c   Brown, Kevin ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d Linac House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENSITOMETRY; DIODE; ELECTRON BEAM; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TECHNIQUE;

BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC;

EID: 0031696075     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/9/017     Document Type: Article

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