Pencil beam approach for correcting the energy dependence artifact in film dosimetry for IMRT verification

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3690-3699

  Kirov, Assen S ^a   Caravelli, Gregory ^a,b   Palm, Åsa ^a,c   Chui, Chen ^a   LoSasso, Thomas ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; POLYSTYRENES; RADIOTHERAPY;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSIMETRIC ERRORS; EGSNRC MONTE CARLO; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; POLYSTYRENE PHANTOM; RADIOGRAPHIC FILMS; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

POLYSTYRENE; WATER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ENERGY; FILM DOSIMETER; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY;

EID: 33749421492     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2229425     Document Type: Article

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