Evaluation of two water-equivalent phantom materials for output calibration of photon and electron beams

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 267-269

  Liu, Lizhong ^a   Prasad, Satish C ^a   Bassano, Daniel A ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam calibration; Solid phantom; Water equivalency

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DENSITY; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRON BEAM; ENERGY; IONIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SOLID; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0347479355     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2003.09.001     Document Type: Article

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