A quality assurance phantom for electronic portal imaging devices

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 391-403

  Das, Indra J ^a,b   Cao, Minsong ^a   Cheng, Chee Wai ^a,b   Misic, Vladimir ^c   Scheuring, Klaus ^d   Schüle, Edmund ^d   Johnstone, Peter A S ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Physikalisch Technische Werkstatten Dr Pychlau GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

EPID; Imager; MTF; QA

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960509867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v12i2.3350     Document Type: Article

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