Radiation hardness of the storage phosphor europium doped potassium chloride for radiation therapy dosimetry

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 4681-4688

  Driewer, Joseph P ^a,b   Chen, Haijian ^a   Osvet, Andres ^c   Low, Daniel A ^a   Li, H Harold ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

dosimeter; IMRT; storage phosphor

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DIGITAL STORAGE; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; EUROPIUM COMPOUNDS; HARDNESS; IRRADIATION; PELLETIZING; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POTASH; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RADIOTHERAPY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STORAGE (MATERIALS);

IMRT; LUMINESCENCE LIFETIME; MACROSCOPIC PROPERTIES; PHOTO STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; RADIATION SENSITIVITY; RADIATION THERAPY DOSIMETRY; STORAGE PHOSPHORS;

RADIATION;

EID: 79961084401     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3611043     Document Type: Article

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