Ionization chamber-based reference dosimetry of intensity modulated radiation beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2454-2465

  Bouchard, Hugo ^a,b   Seuntjens, Jan ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fluence perturbation effects; IMRT; Ionization chamber response; Monte Carlo calculations; Reference dosimetry

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIATION EFFECTS;

FLUENCE DISTRIBUTION; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; PERTURBATION CORRECTION; PERTURBATION EFFECT; REFERENCE DOSIMETRY;

IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION FIELD;

EID: 4644295340     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1781333     Document Type: Article

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