Characterization of a novel phantom for three-dimensional in vitro cell experiments

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Altman, Michael B ^a   Vesper, Benjamin J ^b,c   Smith, Brett D ^b   Stinauer, Michelle A ^b   Pelizzari, Charles A ^a   Aydogan, Bulent ^a,b   Reft, Chester S ^a   Radosevich, James A ^b,c   Chmura, Steven J ^a   Roeske, John C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILM PLANES; IN-VITRO; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPIES; PLASTIC PHANTOMS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCES; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETERS; TISSUE CULTURE PLATES; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; TREATMENT PLANS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; EXPERIMENTS; PHYSICAL THERAPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE CULTURE;

CELL CULTURE;

ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FILM; IN VITRO STUDY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IRRADIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE CULTURE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CELLS, CULTURED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 63649164953     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/5/N02     Document Type: Article

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