GLAaS: An absolute dose calibration algorithm for an amorphous silicon portal imager. Applications to IMRT verifications

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2839-2851

  Nicolini, Giorgia ^a   Fogliata, Antonella ^a   Vanetti, Eugenio ^a,b   Clivio, Alessandro ^a,b   Cozzi, Luca ^a  

^a ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amorphous silicon; EPID dosimetry; IMRT verification; Portal dosimetry

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY; SILICON DETECTORS;

ALGORITHM VALIDATION; CALIBRATION ALGORITHM; DETECTOR CALIBRATION; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGER; INTENSITY-MODULATED; PORTAL DOSIMETRIES; STATISTICAL DIFFERENCES; TRANSMITTED RADIATION;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY; IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 33746606839     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2218314     Document Type: Article

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