Systematic measurements of whole-body imaging dose distributions in image-guided radiation therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 7650-7661

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

^a Radiotherapy Hirslanden AG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

image guided radiation therapy; imaging dose; measurement; organ dose; thermoluminescent dosimeter

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETERS; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOMS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; RADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FAN-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; IMAGING DOSE; ORGAN DOSE; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETERS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84870899727     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4758065     Document Type: Article

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