An intercomparison of 11 amorphous silicon EPIDs of the same type: Implications for portal dosimetry

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 4189-4200

  Winkler, Peter ^a   Georg, Dietmar ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CONTROL NONLINEARITIES; DOSIMETRY; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SCATTERING;

DETECTOR AGEING; DOSE RATE; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES (EPID); FIELD SIZE;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DEVICE; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICE; ELECTRONICS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 33747611733     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/17/005     Document Type: Article

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