Verification of proton range, position, and intensity in IMPT with a 3D liquid scintillator detector system

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1239-1246

  Archambault, L ^a   Poenisch, F ^a   Sahoo, N ^a   Robertson, D ^a   Lee, A ^a   Gillin, M T ^a   Mohan, R ^a   Beddar, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CCD CAMERAS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIQUIDS; PROTON BEAMS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; INTENSITY MODULATED PROTON THERAPIES; LARGEST DEVIATION; LATERAL POSITIONS; LIGHT DISTRIBUTION; LIQUID SCINTILLATOR; LIQUID SCINTILLATOR DETECTORS; SPATIAL LOCALIZATION;

PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

EID: 84857804819     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3681948     Document Type: Article

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