MOSFET dosimetry with high spatial resolution in intense synchrotron-generated x-ray microbeams

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1128-1137

  Siegbahn, E A ^a,c   Brauer Krisch E ^a   Bravin, A ^a   Nettelbeck, H ^b   Lerch, M L F ^b   Rosenfeld, A B ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

dosimetry; microbeam; MOSFET; MRT; radiation therapy; X ray

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MOSFET DEVICES; PHANTOMS; RADIATION DECONTAMINATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE;

ABSORBED DOSE DISTRIBUTION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; MICRO BEAMS; MICROBEAM RADIATION THERAPY; MOS-FET; MULTISLIT COLLIMATORS; TISSUE EQUIVALENT PHANTOM;

X RAYS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTROSCOPY; SYNCHROTRON; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SYNCHROTRONS; X-RAYS;

EID: 63849241762     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3081934     Document Type: Article

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