Application of a practical method for the isocenter point in vivo dosimetry by a transit signal

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 5101-5117

  Piermattei, Angelo ^a,b   Fidanzio, Andrea ^b   Azario, Luigi ^b   Grimaldi, Luca ^a   D'Onofrio, Guido ^a   Cilla, Savino ^a   Stimato, Gerardina ^c   Gaudino, Diego ^c   Ramella, Sara ^c   D'Angelillo, Rolando ^c   Cellini, Francesco ^c   Trodella, Lucio ^c   Russo, Aniello ^d   Iadanza, Luciano ^e   Zucca, Sergio ^e   Fusco, Vincenzo ^e   Di Napoli, Nicola ^b   Gambacorta, Maria Antonietta ^b   Balducci, Mario ^b   Cellini, Numa ^b   Deodato, Francesco ^a   Macchia, Gabriella ^a   Morganti, Alessio G ^a   more..

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^d UO di Radioterapia   (Italy)

^e REFERRAL CANCER CENTER OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PATIENT TREATMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ISOCENTER POINT; PELVIC TREATMENTS; SOLID-STATE DETECTORS;

DRUG DOSAGE;

ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CALIBRATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENSITY; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; IRRADIATION; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PELVIS CANCER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOLID STATE; TREATMENT PLANNING; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; THORACIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34547811516     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/16/026     Document Type: Article

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