Response corrections for solid-state detectors in megavoltage photon dosimetry

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 3691-3702

  Yin, Z ^a,c   Hugtenburg, R P ^a,b   Beddoe, A H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; PHOTONS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RADIATION SHIELDING; SURGERY;

SOLID STATE DETECTORS; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; COMPTON EFFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE; DOSIMETRY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHOTON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLID STATE; SPECTRUM; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY;

EID: 4444263965     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/16/015     Document Type: Article

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