High dose per fraction dosimetry of small fields with Gafchromic EBT2 film

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4081-4085

  Hardcastle, Nicholas ^a,b   Basavatia, Amar ^a   Bayliss, Adam ^a   Tomé, Wolfgang A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

radiochromic film; reference dosimetry; stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

RADIOTHERAPY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONIC EQUILIBRIUM; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; RADIOCHROMIC FILM; REFERENCE DOSIMETRY; STANDARD DEVIATION; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY;

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 79960268032     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3597834     Document Type: Article

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