Semi-empirical procedures for correcting detector size effect on clinical MV x-ray beam profiles

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 5124-5133

  Sahoo, Narayan ^a   Kazi, Abdul M ^b   Hoffman, Mark ^c,d  

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

^b ST AGNES HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Detector size effect; X ray beam profiles

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; SIZE DETERMINATION; X RAYS;

ANALYTICAL FUNCTIONS; CONSTANT OF PROPORTIONALITY; DETECTOR SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL KNOWLEDGE; HIGH ENERGY X RAY; MEASUREMENT POINTS; SECOND DERIVATIVES; X RAY BEAM;

X RAY DETECTORS;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; FILM; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DOSE; X RAY;

EID: 54949105890     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2989089     Document Type: Article

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