Projection imaging of photon beams using Čerenkov-excited fluorescence

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 601-619

  Glaser, Adam K ^a   Davis, Scott C ^a   Voigt, William H A ^a   Zhang, Rongxiao ^b   Pogue, Brian W ^a,b   Gladstone, David J ^c  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2D IMAGES; 2D PROJECTIONS; 3D PROFILE; BEAM PROFILING; DIRECT IMAGING; DOSE RATE; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGING PARAMETERS; LATERAL DIRECTIONS; MEGAVOLTAGE; MONTE CARLO; MULTIPLE PROJECTIONS; PHOTON BEAMS; PROJECTION IMAGING; RADIATION BEAMS; REFERENCE DOSE; TOMOGRAPHIC; TOMOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; TREATMENT PLANS; X RAY PHOTONS; X-RAY PHOTON BEAMS;

CALIBRATION; FLUORESCENCE; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHOTOELECTRONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER TANKS; X RAYS;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

WATER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE;

FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WATER;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872719471     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/3/601     Document Type: Article

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