Dose resolution in gel dosimetry: Effect of uncertainty in the calibration function

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Trapp, J V ^a,b   Michael, G ^b   Evans, P M ^a   Baldock, C ^b,c   Leach, M O ^a   Webb, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; FUNCTIONS; GELS;

DOSE RESOLUTION; GEL DOSIMETRY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ASCORBIC ACID; GELATIN; METHACRYLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; GEL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION;

CALIBRATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GELS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 2942572933     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/10/N02     Document Type: Article

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