Quality assurance measurements of a-Si EPID performance

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 11-17

  Menon, Geetha V ^a   Sloboda, Ron S ^a  

^a CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

a Si EPID; Dose response stability; Image quality; QA

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; EVALUATION; IMAGING; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; STANDARDIZATION;

CALIBRATION; HUMANS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHY, DUAL-ENERGY SCANNED PROJECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SILICON; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1542711413     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2003.09.002     Document Type: Article

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