Determination of penumbral widths from ion chamber measurements

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3636-3640

  Herrup, D ^a   Chu, J ^a   Cheung, H ^a   Pankuch, M ^b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ADVOCATE LUTHERAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECONVOLUTION;

AXIALLY SYMMETRIC; BEAM PROFILES; DETECTOR RADIUS; GAUSSIANS;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; SIMULATION; TECHNIQUE; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICS; NEOPLASM; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICS;

BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33645001082     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2128086     Document Type: Article

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