Enhanced dosimetry procedures and assessment for EBT2 radiochromic film

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2147-2155

  Mayer, Rulon R ^a   Ma, Fuhwa ^b   Chen, Yu ^a   Miller, Rachel I ^b   Belard, Arnaud ^a   McDonough, James ^c   O'Connell, John J ^b  

^a HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

external beam therapy; film dosimetry; gamma analysis; radiochromicfilm; tissue heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PROCESSING;

EXTERNAL BEAM THERAPY; FILM DOSIMETRY; GAMMA ANALYSIS; RADIOCHROMICFILM; TISSUE HETEROGENEITY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861594721     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3694100     Document Type: Article

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