Radiochromic film dosimetry of HDR 192Ir source radiation fields

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 6074-6083

  Aldelaijan, Saad ^a   Mohammed, Huriyyah ^a   Tomic, Nada ^a   Liang, Li Heng ^a   Deblois, Francois ^a   Sarfehnia, Arman ^b   Abdel Rahman, Wamied ^b,c,d   Seuntjens, Jan ^a   Devic, Slobodan ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Saudi Food and Drug Authority   (Saudi Arabia)

^d KING FAHAD SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

HDR brachytherapy; radiochromic film dosimetry

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; IRRADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

CALIBRATION CURVES; CONVERSION FACTOR; DOSE UNCERTAINTIES; HDR BRACHYTHERAPY; RADIOCHROMIC FILM; RADIOCHROMIC FILM DOSIMETRY; SENSITIVE LAYERS; TRACEABLE CALIBRATION;

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 80855134329     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3651482     Document Type: Article

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