High resolution 2D dose measurement device based on a few long scintillating fibers and tomographic reconstruction

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4840-4849

  Goulet, Mathieu ^a,b   Archambault, Louis ^a,b   Beaulieu, Luc ^a,b   Gingras, Luc ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

2D dosimeter; dose measurement; plastic scintillators; tomographic reconstruction

Indexed keywords

CCD CAMERAS; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IONIZATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHANTOMS; PIXELS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; SCINTILLATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

DOSE MEASUREMENT; EFFECTIVE DETECTION AREAS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; PLASTIC SCINTILLATOR; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; TOTAL VARIATION MINIMIZATION; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; WATER EQUIVALENT PHANTOMS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 84864672449     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4736526     Document Type: Article

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