The DOSIMAP, a high spatial resolution tissue equivalent 2D dosimeter for LINAC QA and IMRT verification

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 317-328

  Collomb Patton, V ^a   Boher, P ^a   Leroux, T ^a   Fontbonne, J M ^b   Vela, A ^c   Batalla, A ^c  

^a ELDIM   (France)

^b Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire   (France)

^c CENTRE FRANÇOIS BACLESSE   (France)

Author keywords

erenkov; IMRT; Plastic scintillator dosimetry

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; IRRADIATION; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS; POLYSTYRENES; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; TISSUE;

ACCURACY AND REPEATABILITIES; HIGH RESOLUTION CAMERA; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION MAPPING; IMRT; INSTRUMENT CALIBRATIONS; PLASTIC SCINTILLATOR; TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS;

IMAGE RESOLUTION;

POLYSTYRENE;

ARTICLE; DOSIMAP; DOSIMETER; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IRRADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD;

EID: 59249091676     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3013703     Document Type: Article

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