Dose calibration of nonconventional treatment systems applied to helical tomotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 570-577

  Jeraj, Robert ^a,b   Mackie, Thomas R ^a,c   Balog, John ^d   Olivera, Gustavo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c TOMOTHERAPY INC   (United States)

^d TomoTherapy Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Dose calibration; Helical tomotherapy; Monte Carlo simulations

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIOTHERAPY;

CALIBRATION MEASUREMENTS; CALIBRATION PROTOCOLS; CORRECTION FACTORS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; MASS ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; MEASUREMENT CONDITIONS; REFERENCE CONDITION;

CALIBRATION;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 14644424546     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1855015     Document Type: Article

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