Radiological thickness measurement using a liquid ionization chamber electronic portal imaging device

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1999, Pages

  Evans, Philip M ^a   Donovan, Ellen M ^a   Partridge, Mike ^a   Bidmead, A Margaret ^b   Garton, Andrew ^b   Mubata, Cephas ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DOSE RESPONSE; ERROR; IMAGING SYSTEM; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0033033732     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/6/403     Document Type: Article

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