Investigation of tilted dose kernels for portal dose prediction in a-Si electronic portal imagers

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 3333-3339

  Chytyk, K ^a,b   McCurdy, B M C ^a,b  

^a CANCERCARE MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

CARTESIAN GEOMETRY; FLAT PANEL DETECTORS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; IMAGING CASSETTE; SILICON ELECTRONICS; SOURCE-TO-DETECTORS; STATISTICAL FLUCTUATIONS; WORST CASE SCENARIO;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONICS; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILICON ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICE;

EID: 33748299511     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2259819     Document Type: Article

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