Composite depth dose measurement for total skin electron (TSE) treatments using radiochromic film

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 891-898

  Gamble, Lisa M ^a,b   Farrel, Thomas J ^a,b   Jones, Glenn W ^a,b   Hayward, Joseph E ^a  

^a JURAVINSKI CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETERS; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

TOTAL SKIN ELECTRON (TSE);

SKIN;

ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOCHROMATOGRAPHY; SKIN LYMPHOMA; T CELL LYMPHOMA; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; TOTAL SKIN ELECTRON THERAPY;

ELECTRONS; FILM DOSIMETRY; HUMANS; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY;

EID: 0037425244     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/48/7/306     Document Type: Article

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