Evaluation of EBT-2 model GAFCHROMIC™ film performance in water

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3687-3693

  Aldelaijan, Saad ^a,b   Devic, Slobodan ^a,b   Mohammed, Huriyyah ^a,b   Tomic, Nada ^a,b   Liang, Li Heng ^a,b   DeBlois, Francois ^a,b   Seuntjens, Jan ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

radiochromic film dosimetry; water immersion

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (OPTICAL); DENSITY MEASUREMENT (OPTICAL); DOSIMETRY; SCANNING; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

DOSE MEASUREMENT; FILM PERFORMANCE; IMMERSION IN WATERS; RADIOCHROMIC FILM; RADIOCHROMIC FILM DOSIMETRY; WATER DIFFUSION; WATER IMMERSION; WATER PENETRATION;

OPTICAL FILMS;

WATER;

ABSORPTION; EVALUATION STUDY; IMMERSION; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; PROCEDURES; RADIOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION; IMMERSION; OPTICAL PROCESSES; RADIOMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WATER;

EID: 77954710176     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3455713     Document Type: Article

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