Precision dosimetry for narrow photon beams used in radiosurgery - Determination of Gamma Knife® output factors

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2080-2089

  Mack, Andreas ^a   Scheib, Stefan G ^b   Major, Jürg ^c   Gianolini, Stefano ^b   Pazmandi, Gyorgy ^d   Feist, Harald ^e   Czempiel, Heinz ^a   Kreiner, Hans Jürg ^c  

^a Gamma Knife Center Munich   (Germany)

^b KLINIK IM PARK   (Switzerland)

^c Europe GmbH in Munich   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Gamma Knife ; Narrow photon beams; Output factors; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; IONIZING RADIATION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SAFETY DEVICES;

EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; GAMMA KNIFE; LIQUID IONIZATION CHAMBERS; OUTPUT FACTOR MEASUREMENTS; OUTPUT FACTORS; PHOTON BEAMS; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTACTIC IRRADIATIONS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; FILM; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; HELMET; IONIZING RADIATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MEASUREMENT; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION FIELD; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

EID: 0036732644     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1501138     Document Type: Article

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