Multichannel detectors for profile measurements in clinical proton fields

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2683-2690

  Nichiporov, Dmitri ^a   Solberg, Keith ^a   Hsi, Wen ^b   Wolanski, Mark ^b   Mascia, Anthony ^b   Farr, Jonathan ^b   Schreuder, Andries ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute   (United States)

^c Procure Treatment Centers Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam scanning; Depth dose profile; Detector; Lateral profile

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DETECTORS; IONIZATION CHAMBERS;

BEAM SCANNING; CLINICAL PROTON BEAMS; DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM; DEPTH DOSE; DETECTOR PERFORMANCE; INDIANA UNIVERSITY CYCLOTRON FACILITY; LATERAL PROFILE; MULTICHANNEL DETECTORS;

IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; HUMAN; IMAGING PHANTOM; RADIOMETRY;

PROTON; WATER;

HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RADIOMETRY; WATER;

EID: 34347373700     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2746513     Document Type: Article

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