Assessment of the setup dependence of detector response functions for mega-voltage linear accelerators

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 477-484

  Fox, Christopher ^a,b   Simon, Tom ^a,b   Simon, Bill ^a   Dempsey, James F ^c   Kahler, Darren ^b   Palta, Jatinder R ^b   Liu, Chihray ^b   Yan, Guanghua ^b  

^a Sun Nuclear Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Oakwood Village   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECONVOLUTION; DIODES; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; SCANNING;

ACCURATE MODELING; DETECTOR RESPONSE; DIODE DETECTORS; ENERGY DEPENDENCE; GAUSSIAN FUNCTIONS; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; SCAN DIRECTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

EID: 75749086903     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3284529     Document Type: Article

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