Systematic measurements of whole-body dose distributions for various treatment machines and delivery techniques in radiation therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 7662-7676

  Hälg, Roger A ^a   Besserer, Jürgen ^a   Schneider, Uwe ^a,b  

^a Radiotherapy Hirslanden AG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

intensity modulated radiation therapy; measurement; organ dose; stray dose; thermoluminescent dosimeter

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; IRRADIATION; MEASUREMENT; RADIATION; STRAY LIGHT;

3D-CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; ORGAN DOSE; STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY; STRAY DOSE; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS; VARIAN LINEAR ACCELERATORS; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 84870861919     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4767773     Document Type: Article

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