A method to estimate the transit dose on the beam axis for verification of dose delivery with portal images

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 39-46

  Bogaerts, Ria ^a   Van Esch, Ann ^a   Reymen, Rita ^a   Huyskens, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

In vivo dosimetry; Quality control; Transit dosimetry

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; TECHNIQUE; X RAY FILM;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0033968929     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(99)00165-6     Document Type: Article

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