Correction for dose-response variations in a scanning liquid ion chamber EPID as a function of linac gantry angle

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Chin, P W ^a   Lewis, D G ^a   Spezi, E ^a,b  

^a VELINDRE CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; IONIZATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICINE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCANNING;

ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGE DEVICES (EPID); IMAGING PROTOCOLS; NONLINEAR REGRESSION; SCANNING LIQUID IONIZATION CHAMBERS (SLIC);

DOSIMETRY;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LIQUID; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MODULATION; MONITORING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION BEAM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROTATION;

CALIBRATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IONS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 2342538360     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/8/N01     Document Type: Article

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