Exploration of the potential of liquid scintillators for real-time 3D dosimetry of intensity modulated proton beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1736-1743

  Beddar, Sam ^a   Archambault, Louis ^a   Sahoo, Narayan ^a   Poenisch, Falk ^a   Chen, George T ^b   Gillin, Michael T ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

CCD cameras; Dosimetry; Liquid scintillators; Proton beams

Indexed keywords

CCD CAMERAS; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; LIQUIDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PROTON BEAMS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

ACQUISITION RATES; FRAMES PER SECONDS; INTENSITY-MODULATED; LIGHT DISTRIBUTION; LIQUID SCINTILLATOR; LIQUID SCINTILLATOR DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION LIGHT; STANDARD DEVIATION;

PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

ARTICLE; CAMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; IRRADIATION; LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DETECTOR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 65449132380     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3117583     Document Type: Article

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