An absolute dose determination of helical tomotherapy accelerator, Tomo therapy hjigh-art II

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3891-3896

  Bailat, Claude J ^a   Buchillier, Thierry ^a   Pachoud, Marc ^a   Moeckli, Raphal ^a   Bochud, Fraņois O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alanine; Dosimetry; Ionization chamber; Metrology; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; CALORIMETERS; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOMS; PHOTOIONIZATION; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

ALANINE; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; PARTICULAR CONDITION; REFERENCE CONDITION; REFERENCE INSTRUMENTS; RELATIVE DEVIATIONS; TOMOTHERAPY;

ACCELERATION;

GRAPHITE; WATER;

ALANINE DOSIMETRY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CALORIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOTHERAPY;

CALIBRATION; CALORIMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; UNCERTAINTY; WATER;

EID: 69549111123     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3176951     Document Type: Article

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