New 2-D dosimetric technique for radiotherapy based on planar thermoluminescent detectors

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 213-218

  Olko, Pawel ^a   Marczewska, B ^a   Czopyk, L ^a   Czermak, M A ^a   Klosowski M ^a   Waligorski M P R ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; LITHIUM FLUORIDE; MAGNESIUM; PHOSPHORUS; RADIUM 226; STRONTIUM 90; TETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; YTTRIUM 90;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CAMERA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOIL; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; POLAND; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOACTIVITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; THICKNESS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY;

EID: 33745728198     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncl019     Document Type: Article

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