Clinical prototype of a plastic water-equivalent scintillating fiber dosimeter array for QA applications

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3682-3690

  Lacroix, Fŕderic ^a,b,d   Archambault, Louis ^c   Gingras, Luc ^a,b   Guillot, Mathieu ^a,b   Beddar, A Sam ^c   Beaulieu, Luc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dosimeter array; Dosimetry; IMRT; Plastic scintillators

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; FIBERS; IONIZATION; PLASTIC SHEETS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SCINTILLATION;

CHARACTERIZATION MEASUREMENT; DOSE MEASUREMENT; IMRT; MECHANICAL POSITIONING; PLASTIC SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; PLASTIC SCINTILLATOR; SCINTILLATING FIBER DOSIMETERS; WATER EQUIVALENT;

PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER; WATER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CAMERA; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION SHIELD; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCINTILLATION;

EID: 48349136774     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2953564     Document Type: Article

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