Energy dependence of commercially available diode detectors for in-vivo dosimetry

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1704-1711

  Saini, Amarjit S ^a   Zhu, Timothy C ^b  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diode dosimetry; Diode to water dose ratio; Diodes; Energy dependence; In vivo dosimetry; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; GOLD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

DIODE DETECTORS; ENERGY DEPENDENCE; IN-VIVO; LIQUID WATER; MINIMUM SENSITIVITIES; PHOTON FIELDS; SOURCE-TO-DETECTORS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

DIODES;

COBALT 60; WATER;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DIODE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; LIGHT; LIQUID; MATERIALS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 34247626996     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2719365     Document Type: Article

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