A novel method for patient exit and entrance dose prediction based on water equivalent path length measured with an amorphous silicon electronic portal imaging device

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 435-452

  Kavuma, Awusi ^a,b   Glegg, Martin ^a   Metwaly, Mohamed ^a   Currie, Garry ^a   Elliott, Alex ^b  

^a BEATSON WEST OF SCOTLAND CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; FIELD SIZE; GREY SCALE; IN-VIVO; INPUT PARAMETER; MATERIAL THICKNESS; MONITOR UNITS; NOVEL METHODS; OFF-AXIS RATIOS; PHOTON BEAMS; PIXEL VALUES; QUADRATIC EQUATIONS; QUADRATIC MODELS; QUALITY ASSURANCE TOOLS; REFERENCE CONDITION; RELATIVE MEASUREMENT; SOLID WATER; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; WATER EQUIVALENT;

AMORPHOUS SILICON; HEAT SHIELDING; LIGHT WEIGHT ROLLING STOCK; PIXELS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VEHICULAR TUNNELS;

IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS;

SILICON; WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHMS; BONE AND BONES; LUNG; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; WATER;

EID: 74549211212     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/2/007     Document Type: Article

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