Measurement of relative output factors for the 8 and 4 mm collimators of Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion by film dosimetry

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1768-1774

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion ; Relative output factor; Small field dosimetry

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY;

BACKGROUND CORRECTION; CALCULATED VALUES; CALIBRATION CURVES; FILM MEASUREMENT; GAFCHROMIC FILMS; GAMMA KNIFE; OUTPUT FACTORS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; COLLIMATOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOSIMETRY; FILM DOSIMETER; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GAMMA RADIATION; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RELATIVE DENSITY; RELATIVE OUTPUT FACTOR; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 65449117589     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3113904     Document Type: Article

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