Basic investigations on the performance of a normoxic polymer gel with tetrakis-hydroxy-methyl-phosphonium chloride as an oxygen scavenger: Reproducibility, accuracy, stability, and dose rate dependence

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2506-2518

  Bayreder, Christian ^a   Georg, Dietmar ^a   Moser, Ewald ^a   Berg, Andreas ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Dose rate dependence; Normoxic; Polymer gel; Radiation dosimetry; Reproducibility; Stability

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DOSIMETRY; GELS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IRRADIATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OXYGEN; SCANNING; STABILITY;

ACCURACY; DOSE RATE DEPENDENCE; NORMOXIC; POLYMER GELS; REPRODUCIBILITIES;

POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES;

METHACRYLIC ACID; PHOSPHONIUM DERIVATIVE; POLYMER; SCAVENGER; TETRAKIS(HYDROXYMETHYL)PHOSPHONIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; GEL; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; WHOLE BODY SCANNER;

EID: 33745668667     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2208741     Document Type: Article

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