Amorphous silicon EPID calibration for dosimetric applications: Comparison of a method based on Monte Carlo prediction of response with existing techniques

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3351-3368

  Parent, L ^a   Fielding, A L ^b   Dance, D R ^c   Seco, J ^d   Evans, P M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IRRADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PIXELS;

BEAM ASYMMETRY; CALIBRATION METHOD (MC); FLOOD FIELD CALIBRATION (FF); IMAGE PIXELS;

DOSIMETRY;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICE; ELECTRONICS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; IRRADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34249737441     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/12/003     Document Type: Article

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