Recommendations for clinical electron beam dosimetry: Supplement to the recommendations of Task Group 25

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3239-3279

  Gerbi, Bruce J ^a   Antolak, John A ^b   Deibel, F Christopher ^c   Followill, David S ^d   Herman, Michael G ^b   Higgins, Patrick D ^a   Huq, M Saiful ^e   Mihailidis, Dimitris N ^f   Yorke, Ellen D ^g   Hogstrom, Kenneth R ^h   Khan, Faiz M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f Charleston Radiation Therapy Consultants   (United States)

^g MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^h LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical dosimetry; Electrons; Quality assurance; TG 25

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE TESTS; CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAMS; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

CALIBRATION PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL ELECTRON BEAMS; CONVERSION COEFFICIENTS; ELECTRON BEAM DOSIMETRY; HIGH ENERGY ELECTRON BEAMS; HIGH-QUALITY PROGRAMS; TG-25; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS;

ELECTRONS;

COBALT 60; POLYSTYRENE; WATER;

CALIBRATION; DIODE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM DOSIMETRY; FILM; HUMAN; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIOCHROMIC FILM; RETINOBLASTOMA; REVIEW; STANDARD; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 67649576938     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3125820     Document Type: Review

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