Surface dose measurement for helical tomotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3104-3107

  Snir, Jonatan A ^a   Mosalaei, Homeira ^a   Jordan, Kevin ^a,b   Yartseva, Slav ^a,b  

^a LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

helical tomotherapy; MOSFET dosimeter; OSL dosimeter; skin dose

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETERS; LUMINESCENCE; METALS; MOS DEVICES; OXIDE FILMS; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; RADIATION DECONTAMINATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; MOS-FET; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; SKIN DOSE;

MOSFET DEVICES;

EID: 79958801160     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3592021     Document Type: Article

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