Spectral discrimination of Čerenkov radiation in scintillating dosimeters

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3000-3006

  Frelin, A M ^a   Fontbonne, J M ^a   Ban, G ^a   Colin, J ^a   Labalme, M ^a   Batalla, A ^b   Isambert, A ^b   Vela, A ^b   Leroux, T ^c  

^a Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire   (France)

^b CENTRE FRANÇOIS BACLESSE   (France)

^c ELDIM   (France)

Author keywords

Calibration; CCD camera; Plastic scintillator dosimetry; Real time

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DOSIMETERS; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DOSE DEPOSITION; DOSE MEASUREMENT; ERENKOV RADIATIONS; HIGHLY ACCURATE; PLASTIC SCINTILLATOR; REAL TIME; SCINTILLATING FIBER; WATER EQUIVALENT;

CCD CAMERAS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON RADIATION; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MONITORING; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; INSTRUMENTATION; IONIZING RADIATION; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; RADIOMETRY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING;

CALIBRATION; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIATION, IONIZING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SCINTILLATION COUNTING;

EID: 25644453647     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2008487     Document Type: Article

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