Dosimetry of therapeutic photon beams using an extended dose range film

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2438-2445

  Esthappan, Jacqueline ^a   Mutic, Sasa ^a   Harms, William B ^a   Dempsey, James F ^a   Low, Daniel A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE-DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; DOSIMETRIC PROPERTIES; EXTENDED DOSE RANGE FILMS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; RADIOGRAPHIC FILMS; SCATTERED PHOTONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CALIBRATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; FILM; IMAGE QUALITY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODENSITOMETRY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER;

EID: 0036797460     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1508379     Document Type: Article

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