Portal dose image verification: The collapsed cone superposition method applied with different electronic portal imaging devices

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 335-349

  Dahlgren, Christina Vallhagen ^a   Eilertsen, Karsten ^b   Jørgensen, Trude Dahl ^b   Ahnesjö, Anders ^a,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c Elekta AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; PATIENT TREATMENT;

CHAMBER MATRIX; PORTAL DOSE IMAGE (PDI);

IMAGE PROCESSING;

WATER;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAMERA; DEVICE; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICE; FLUOROSCOPY; IMAGING SYSTEM; IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PORTAL DOSE IMAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS; X RAY;

EID: 32544458957     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/2/010     Document Type: Article

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