Performance of a near-real-time KBr:Eu dosimetry system under computed tomography x-rays

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 45, Issue 3-6, 2010, Pages 663-667

  Klein, David ^a,c   Peakheart, David W ^b   McKeever, Stephen W S ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Major League Medical Physics   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

OSL dosimetry; Real time dosimetry; Remote dosimetry

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DOSIMETRY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; DOSE MEASUREMENT; DOSE RESPONSE; DYNAMIC RADIATION; FAST DATA ACQUISITION; FIBEROPTIC CABLES; HELICAL CT; HIGH RESOLUTION; NEAR-REAL TIME; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; OSL DOSIMETRY; PASSIVE DETECTORS; PENCIL IONIZATION CHAMBERS; QUANTITATIVE CT; RADIATION FIELD; REAL-TIME DOSIMETRY; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS; VOLUME DETECTORS; X-RAY ENERGIES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETERS; EUROPIUM; IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; LUMINESCENCE; PARTICLE DETECTORS; RADIATION DETECTORS;

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 77955304653     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2009.11.043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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