Comparison of ionization chambers of various volumes for IMRT absolute dose verification

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 119-123

  Leybovich, Leonid B ^a   Sethi, Anil ^a   Dogan, Nesrin ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute dose verification; IMRT; Ionization chambers

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE VERIFICATION; ELECTRON FLUENCES; FLUENCE DISTRIBUTION; IMRT; PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS; POINT OF MEASUREMENT; SENSITIVE VOLUME;

IONIZATION CHAMBERS;

ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

MUS;

EID: 0037323020     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1536161     Document Type: Article

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