Experimental determination of the effect of detector size on profile measurements in narrow photon beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3700-3710

  Pappas, E ^a,b   Maris, T G ^a   Papadakis, A ^a   Zacharopoulou, F ^a   Damilakis, J ^a   Papanikolaou, N ^a   Gourtsoyiannis, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Papanicolaou Research Centre of Oncology and Experimental Surgery   (Greece)

Author keywords

Detector size effect; Narrow photon beam profiles; Polymer gel dosimetry

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; POLYMERS;

CONVOLUTION KERNEL; DETECTOR SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; PHOTON BEAMS; POLYMER GEL DOSIMETRY; PROFILE MEASUREMENT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

POLYMER;

AIR; ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ERROR; IONIZATION CHAMBER; IRRADIATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33749387201     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2349691     Document Type: Article

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