Spatial resolution of 2D ionization chamber arrays for IMRT dose verification: Single-detector size and sampling step width

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Poppe, Björn ^a,b   Djouguela, Armand ^a,b   Blechschmidt, Arne ^c   Willborn, Kay ^b   Rühmann, Antje ^a,b   Harder, Dietrich ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b PIUS HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c KLINIKUM BREMEN MITTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; DETECTORS; DIODES; DOSIMETRY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CONVOLUTION PRODUCT; RESPONSE FUNCTION; SINGLE DETECTOR; SINGLE-DETECTOR SIZE; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEM;

IONIZATION CHAMBERS;

ARTICLE; DIODE; DOSIMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; TREATMENT PLANNING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 34248226518     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/10/019     Document Type: Article

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