Interinstitutional variations of sensitometric curves of radiographic dosimetric films

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1772-1780

  Bos, Luc J ^a   Danciu, Claudia ^b   Cheng, Chee Wai ^c   Brugmans, Marco J P ^a   Van Der Horst, Astrid ^a   Minken, André ^a   Mijnheer, Ben J ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Film dosimetry; Photon beam dosimetry; Sensitometric curve

Indexed keywords

IRRADIATION;

CLINICAL PRACTICES; FILM DOSIMETRY; IRRADIATION CONDITIONS; LIMITED INFORMATION; PHOTON BEAMS; PROCESSING CONDITION; RADIOGRAPHIC FILMS; SENSITOMETRIC CURVE;

DOSIMETRY;

ARTICLE; DIODE LASER; FILM DOSIMETER; FLUORESCENT LIGHTING; IRRADIATION; OPTICAL DENSITY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIODENSITOMETRY; X RAY FILM;

EID: 0036703426     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1494833     Document Type: Article

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