Water-equivalent dosimeter array for small-field external beam radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1583-1592

  Archambault, Louis ^a,b   Beddar, A Sam ^a   Gingras, Luc ^b,c   Lacroix, Fréderic ^b,c   Roy, René ^b   Beaulieu, Luc ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dosimeter array; Dosimetry; EBRT; IMRT; Plastic scintillators

Indexed keywords

CCD CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; OPTICAL FIBERS; RADIOTHERAPY; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

EBRT; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; PLASTIC SCINTILLATING FIBERS; PLASTIC SCINTILLATOR; SCINTILLATING FIBER DETECTORS; SCINTILLATING FIBER DOSIMETERS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

GLASS FIBER; WATER;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSURGERY; SCINTILLATION CAMERA; SIMULATION;

EID: 34247629705     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2719363     Document Type: Article

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