Accurate portal dose measurement with a fluoroscopic electronic portal imaging device (EPID) for open and wedged beams and dynamic multileaf collimation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2047-2060

  Pasma, K L ^a   Kroonwijk, M ^a   De Boer, J C J ^a   Visser, A G ^a   Heijmen, B J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONICS; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0031854569     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/8/004     Document Type: Article

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