Unintended attenuation in the Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion calibration-phantom adaptor and its effect on dose calibration

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1208-1211

  Bhatnagar, Jagdish P ^a   Novotny, Josef ^a   Quader, Mubina A ^a   Bednarz, Greg ^a   Huq, M Saiful ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

dosimetric measurements; Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion; output calibration

Indexed keywords

PHANTOMS; POLYSTYRENES;

CALIBRATION PHANTOM; DOSIMETRIC MEASUREMENT; GAMMA KNIFE; IRRADIATION POSITION; LEKSELL GAMMA KNIFE PERFEXION; OUTPUT CALIBRATION; POLYSTYRENE PHANTOM;

CALIBRATION;

ALUMINUM; POLYSTYRENE; STAINLESS STEEL;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; IRRADIATION; LEKSELL GAMMA KNIFE PERFEXION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ALUMINUM; CALIBRATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; POLYSTYRENES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STAINLESS STEEL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 63849324254     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3093240     Document Type: Article

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