Use of a two-dimensional ionization chamber array for proton therapy beam quality assurance

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3889-3894

  Arjomandy, Bijan ^a   Sahoo, Narayan ^a   Ding, Xiaoning ^a   Gillin, Michael ^a  

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

Author keywords

MatriXX 2D ion chamber array; Proton therapy; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONS; PROTON BEAMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

COMMERCIAL DEVICES; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; ION CHAMBER ARRAYS; PROTON THERAPY; PROTON THERAPY BEAMS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER EQUIVALENT;

PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 50449096215     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2963990     Document Type: Article

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