Quantitative megavoltage radiation therapy dosimetry using the storage phosphor KCl: Eu2+

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3748-3757

  Han, Zhaohui ^a   Driewer, Joseph P ^a   Zheng, Yuanshui ^a   Low, Daniel A ^a   Li, H Harold ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosimeter; IMRT; Radiation therapy dosimetry; Storage phosphor

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; BROMINE COMPOUNDS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; FILM THICKNESS; HARDNESS; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; PHOSPHORS; PHOTONS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; POTASH; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RADIOTHERAPY; STORAGE (MATERIALS); THIN FILMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

COMPUTED RADIOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRIC PROPERTIES; EXPERIMENTAL UNCERTAINTY; IMRT; RADIATION THERAPY DOSIMETRY; RADIOGRAPHIC FILMS; STORAGE PHOSPHORS; THIN-FILM TECHNIQUE;

EUROPIUM COMPOUNDS;

EUROPIUM; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LUMINESCENCE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION ENERGY; UNCERTAINTY; X RAY FILM;

EID: 68149181740     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3171687     Document Type: Article

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