Cerenkov light spectrum in an optical fiber exposed to a photon or electron radiation therapy beam

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 3362-3367

  Lambert, Jamil ^a   Yin, Yongbai ^a   McKenzie, David R ^a   Law, Sue ^a   Suchowerska, Natalka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; ESTERS; PHOTONS;

BACKGROUND SIGNALS; CERENKOV LIGHT; ELECTRON RADIATION; ENERGETIC CHARGED PARTICLES; FIBER READOUT; RADIATION BEAMS; SPECTRAL MEASUREMENT; THERAPEUTIC BEAMS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; ELECTRON; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 67849086734     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.003362     Document Type: Article

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