Ultra-thin TLDs for skin dose determination in high energy photon beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 3549-3567

  Stathakis, S ^a   Li, J S ^a   Paskalev, K ^a   Yang, J ^a   Wang, L ^a   Ma, C M ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LASER BEAMS; LASER DAMAGE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIOTHERAPY; SKIN;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; PHOTON BEAMS; SKIN DOSE; WATER PHANTOM;

DOSIMETRY;

WATER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SKIN SURFACE;

EID: 33745850142     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/14/018     Document Type: Article

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