Wide field array calibration dependence on the stability of measured dose distributions

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3501-3509

  Simon, Thomas A ^a,b,c   Simon, William E ^c   Kahler, Darren ^b   Li, Jonathan ^b   Liu, Chihray ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

^c Sun Nuclear Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

calibration; detector array; ionization chamber; linear accelerator; relative dosimetry

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS;

BASELINE CALIBRATION; CALIBRATION MEASUREMENTS; CALIBRATION PROTOCOLS; DETECTOR ARRAYS; DETECTOR SENSITIVITY; EFFECT OF MEASUREMENTS; MEASUREMENT CONFIGURATION; RELATIVE SENSITIVITY;

CALIBRATION;

CALIBRATION; DEVICES; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CALIBRATION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77954700726     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3442028     Document Type: Article

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