DAVID - A translucent multi-wire transmission ionization chamber for in vivo verification of IMRT and conformal irradiation techniques

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1237-1248

  Poppe, B ^a   Thieke, C ^b   Beyer, D ^a   Kollhoff, R ^a   Djouguela, A ^a   Ruhmann A ^a   Willborn, K C ^a   Harder, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; DOSIMETRY; ERROR DETECTION; IRRADIATION; PHOTONS; RADIATION DETECTORS;

IN VIVO VERIFICATION; MULTI WIRE TRANSMISSION; TOTAL RADIANT ENERGY; TRANSLUCENT MATERIALS;

IONIZATION CHAMBERS;

ARTICLE; ERROR; IONIZATION CHAMBER; IRRADIATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

HUMANS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 33144489418     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/5/013     Document Type: Article

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