Multichannel film dosimetry with nonuniformity correction

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2523-2534

  Micke, Andre ^a   Lewis, David F ^a   Yu, Xiang ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL SPECIALTY PRODUCTS   (United States)

Author keywords

dosimetry; Gafchromic EBT2; multichannel; thickness compensation

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; CALIBRATION; COLOR; DATA HANDLING; DOSIMETRY; SCANNING; SEPARATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CALIBRATION FILMS; GAFCHROMIC EBT2; LATERAL POSITIONS; MULTICHANNEL; NONUNIFORMITY CORRECTION; RADIOCHROMIC FILM DOSIMETRY; SINGLE CHANNEL METHODS; THICKNESS COMPENSATION;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 79959573017     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3576105     Document Type: Article

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