Ionization chamber gradient effects in nonstandard beam configurations

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4654-4663

  Bouchard, Hugo ^a,b   Seuntjens, Jan ^c   Carrier, Jean Francois ^a,b   Kawrakow, Iwan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; IMRT; Ionization chamber; Monte Carlo; Perturbation

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY;

CYLINDRICAL CHAMBERS; IMRT; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEASUREMENT PROCEDURES; PERTURBATION; PERTURBATION CORRECTION; POINT OF MEASUREMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCEDURES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 70349658748     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3213518     Document Type: Article

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