Portal dosimetry for pretreatment verification of IMRT plan: A comparison with 2D ion chamber array

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 238-248

  Sharma, Dayananda Shamurailatpam ^a   Mhatre, Vaibav ^a   Heigrujam, Malhotra ^a   Talapatra, Kaustav ^a   Mallik, Suman ^a  

^a Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute   (India)

Author keywords

2D detector array; Gamma; IMRT; Portal dosimetry; QA

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650059288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v11i4.3268     Document Type: Article

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