Lithium formate EPR dosimetry for verifications of planned dose distributions prior to intensity-modulated radiation therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 4667-4682

  Gustafsson, H ^a   Lund, E ^a   Olsson, S ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LITHIUM; MAGNETISM; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARAMAGNETISM; PHYSICAL THERAPY; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIOTHERAPY;

ABSORBED DOSE; BEAM ENERGIES; COVERAGE FACTORS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE RATES; ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; EPR DOSIMETRY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION THERAPY; IMRT TREATMENT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LITHIUM FORMATE; MEASUREMENT TIME;

LITHIUM COMPOUNDS;

LITHIUM DERIVATIVE; LITHIUM FORMATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TABLET;

CALIBRATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FORMIC ACIDS; HUMANS; IONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 51849102925     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/17/014     Document Type: Article

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