Dosimetric properties of radiophotoluminescent glass rod detector in high-energy photon beams from a linear accelerator and Cyber-Knife

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1980-1986

  Araki, Fujio ^a   Moribe, Nobuyuki ^b   Shimonobou, Toshiaki ^b   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^b  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Output factors; Radiophotoluminescent glass rod dosimeter; Small field measurements

Indexed keywords

DIODES; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAMS; GLASS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; SILICON DETECTORS; X RAYS;

ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; DIRECTIONAL DEPENDENCE; DOSIMETRIC PROPERTIES; FIELD MEASUREMENT; GLASS RODS; HIGH-ENERGY PHOTON BEAMS; OUTPUT FACTORS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

COBALT 60;

ARTICLE; CYBER KNIFE; DIAMOND DETECTOR; DIODE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GLASS DOSIMETRY; HIGH ENERGY PHOTON BEAM; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOPHOTOLUMINESCENT GLASS ROD DETECTOR; RADIOSURGERY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SILICON DIODE DETECTOR;

EID: 3142671924     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1758351     Document Type: Article

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