A new water-equivalent 2D plastic scintillation detectors array for the dosimetry of megavoltage energy photon beams in radiation therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 6763-6774

  Guillot, Mathieu ^a,b   Beaulieu, Luc ^a,b   Archambault, Louis ^a,b   Beddar, Sam ^c   Gingras, Luc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

angular dependence; detector array; IMRT; plastic scintillation detectors; water equivalence

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DOSIMETRY; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; SCINTILLATION;

ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; DETECTOR ARRAYS; IMRT; PLASTIC SCINTILLATION DETECTORS; WATER EQUIVALENCE;

PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 82755198685     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3664007     Document Type: Article

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