Characteristics of a commercially available film digitizer and their significance for film dosimetry

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1803-1812

  Mersseman, B ^a   De Wagter, C ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIGITAL FILTERING; FILM DOSIMETER; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

BIOPHYSICS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FILM DOSIMETRY; HUMANS; LIGHT; NEOPLASMS; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC;

EID: 0031807510     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/6/030     Document Type: Article

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