Consequences of the spectral response of an a-Si EPID and implications for dosimetric calibration

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2649-2658

  Kirkby, C ^a,b   Sloboda, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amorphous silicon epid; Dose calibration; Portal dosimetry

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY;

CALIBRATION CURVES; COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; MODULATION TRANSFER; PORTAL DOSIMETRIES; SILICON ELECTRONICS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; SPECTRAL RESPONSE;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

COPPER; GADOLINIUM; OXYGEN DERIVATIVE; SILICON; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; TERBIUM;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; THICKNESS;

EID: 23944453854     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1984335     Document Type: Article

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