Real-time scintillation array dosimetry for radiotherapy: The advantages of photomultiplier detectors

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1688-1695

  Liu, Paul Z Y ^a,b   Suchowerska, Natalka ^a,b   Abolfathi, Peter ^a   McKenzie, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

array dosimetry; fiber optic dosimetry; photomultiplier; scintillation dosimetry

Indexed keywords

CCD CAMERAS; CROSSTALK; DATA ACQUISITION; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT SOURCES; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; RADIOTHERAPY; SCINTILLATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL APPLICATION; MATHEMATICAL PROCEDURES; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; PHOTOMULTIPLIER DETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIER TUBE; SCINTILLATION ARRAY; SCINTILLATION LIGHT; SCINTILLATION SIGNALS;

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 84861398707     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3690465     Document Type: Article

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