Variation of relative transit dose profiles with patient-detector distance

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-37

  Bogaerts, Ria ^a   Huyskens, Dominique ^a   Weltens, Caroline ^a   Dutreix, Andrèe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

In vivo dosimetry; Portal imaging; Transit dosimetry

Indexed keywords

POLYSTYRENE;

APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PATIENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; VARIANCE; X RAY FILM;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0033972695     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(99)00172-3     Document Type: Article

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