High resolution MR based polymer dosimetry versus film densitometry: A systematic study based on the modulation transfer function approach

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 4087-4108

  Berg, Andreas ^a   Pernkopf, M ^a   Waldhausl C ^a   Schmidt, W ^b   Moser, E ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Donauspital Wien   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILMS; DENSITOMETERS; GELS; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; MODULATION; RADIOTHERAPY; SILICON; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

BRACHYTHERAPY (BT); DOSE MODULATIONS; SILICON DETECTORS;

DOSIMETRY;

POLYMER;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIODENSITOMETRY; RELAXATION TIME; WHOLE BODY COUNTER;

CALIBRATION; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; DENSITOMETRY; ELECTRONS; FILM DOSIMETRY; GELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; POLYMERS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; X-RAY FILM;

EID: 4544235453     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/17/018     Document Type: Article

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