Two-dimensional ionization chamber arrays for IMRT plan verification

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1005-1015

  Poppe, Bjoern ^a,b   Blechschmidt, Arne ^b   Djouguela, Armand ^b   Kollhoff, Ralf ^a   Rubach, Antje ^a   Willborn, Kay C ^a   Harder, Dietrich ^c  

^a PIUS HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

2D ARRAY; Dose plan verification; IMRT

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

2D ARRAYS; DETECTION CAPABILITY; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; IMRT; PLAN VERIFICATIONS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; TWO DIMENSIONAL DISTRIBUTION; VERIFICATION METHOD;

IONIZATION;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DOSIMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 33645511871     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2179167     Document Type: Article

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