Experimental investigation of the response of an a-Si EPID to an unflattened photon beam from an Elekta Precise linear accelerator

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1318-1329

  Tyner, Elaine ^a   Mcclean, Brendan ^a   Mccavana, Patrick ^a   Wetterstedt, Sachaaf ^a  

^a ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Amorphous silicon; electronic portal imaging device; flattening filter free photon beam; portal dosimetry

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI); CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; PHOTON BEAMS; PORTAL DOSIMETRIES; SCATTERING PROPERTY; UNFLATTENED PHOTON BEAM;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

COPPER; SILICON; WATER;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CALIBRATION; COPPER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON;

EID: 63849172760     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3089424     Document Type: Article

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