Calibration of a portal imaging device for high-precision dosimetry: A Monte Carlo study

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1891-1902

  Keller, Harald ^a   Fix, Michael ^a   Rüegsegger, Peter ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dose calibration; Electronic portal imaging; Liquid filled ionization chambers; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DECONVOLUTION; DOSIMETRY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; PHOTONS; SPECTROSCOPY;

DECONVOLUTION ALGORITHM; DOSE RECONSTRUCTION; DOSE RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; METHOD OF CALIBRATIONS; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOMETRIC QUANTITIES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; X RAY;

EID: 0031732798     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598378     Document Type: Article

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