Clinical results of entrance dose in vivo dosimetry for high energy photons in external beam radiotherapy using MOSFETs

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 252-259

  Morton, Jason P ^a,b   Bhat, M ^a,b   Williams, T ^a   Kovendy, A ^c  

^a Adelaide Radiotherapy Centre   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c Coffs Harbour Health Campus ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

In vivo dosimetry; MOSFET; Photons; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; MOSFET DEVICES; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

ENTRANCE DOSE IN VIVO DOSIMETRY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HIGH ENERGY PHOTONS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGHT; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PHANTOM; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION FIELD; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETRY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 38649127285     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03178434     Document Type: Article

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