The influence of a novel transmission detector on 6 MV x-ray beam characteristics

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3173-3183

  Venkataraman, Sankar ^a,b   Malkoske, Kyle E ^a   Jensen, Martin ^a   Nakonechny, Keith D ^a   Asuni, Ganiyu ^b   McCurdy, Boyd M C ^a,b  

^a CancerCare Manitoba ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE VOLUMES; BEAM PARAMETER; BUILD-UP REGION; DETECTOR SPACING; FIELD SIZE; GEOMETRIC CONDITIONS; GERMANY; NARROW BEAMS; PLANE PARALLEL IONIZATION CHAMBER; RADIOCHROMIC FILM; STANDARD DEVIATION; SURFACE DOSE; TRANSMISSION DETECTORS; X RAY BEAM;

DETECTORS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; SURFACE PROPERTY; X RAY; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCERS; X-RAYS;

EID: 67650714227     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/10/014     Document Type: Article

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