Modeling of carbon fiber couch attenuation properties with a commercial treatment planning system

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4982-4988

  Mihaylov, I B ^a   Corry, P ^a   Yan, Y ^a   Ratanatharathorn, V ^a   Moros, E G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute dosimetry; Attenuation; Carbon fiber; Modeling

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; GRAPHITE FIBERS; MODELS; PHANTOMS; TRANSMISSIONS;

ADEQUATE MODELS; ATTENUATION; ATTENUATION PROPERTIES; DOSE CALCULATION; GANTRY ANGLES; MODEL VALIDATION; RADIOGRAPHIC FILMS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

FIBERS;

CARBON FIBER; WATER;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MODEL; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 54949116628     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2982135     Document Type: Article

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