Calibration of an amorphous-silicon flat panel portal imager for exit-beam dosimetry

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 584-594

  Chen, Josephine ^a   Chuang, Cynthia F ^a   Morin, Olivier ^a   Aubin, Michèle ^a   Pouliot, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose verification; Electronic portal imager; Exit dosimetry; Flat panel imager; In vivo dosimetry; Transit dosimetry

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ACQUISITION; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHANTOMS; SILICON DETECTORS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON FLAT-PANEL; CALIBRATION EXPERIMENTS; DOSE VERIFICATION; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGER; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION THERAPY; FLAT-PANEL IMAGERS; IN-VIVO; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

WATER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 33644624754     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2168294     Document Type: Article

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