Liquid scintillator for 2D dosimetry for high-energy photon beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1478-1485

  Pönisch, Falk ^a   Archambault, Louis ^a   Briere, Tina Marie ^a   Sahoo, Narayan ^a   Mohan, Radhe ^a   Beddar, Sam ^a   Gillin, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

CCD camera; Dosimetry; Liquid scintillator; Photon beams

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ACQUISITION; LIQUIDS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

BEAM CHARACTERISTICS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; HIGH-ENERGY PHOTON BEAMS; LIQUID SCINTILLATOR; MULTIPLE ACQUISITIONS; PHOTON BEAMS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

CCD CAMERAS;

ARTICLE; CAMERA; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIQUID SCINTILLATION COUNTER; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SCINTIGRAPHY; TANK; TREATMENT PLANNING; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 65449149033     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3106390     Document Type: Article

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