Reference radiochromic film dosimetry in kilovoltage photon beams during CBCT image acquisition

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1083-1092

  Tomic, Nada ^a,b   Devic, Slobodan ^a,b   Deblois, Fraņois ^a,b   Seuntjens, Jan ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dose measurements; IGRT; KV cone beam CT; Radiochromic film dosimetry

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ACQUISITION; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; WATER ABSORPTION;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM CT; DOSE MEASUREMENT; IGRT; MASS ENERGY ABSORPTION; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; RADIOCHROMIC FILM DOSIMETRY; THERMOLUMINESCENT DETECTORS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77749240445     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3302140     Document Type: Article

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