Temporal signal stability of KCl:Eu2+ storage phosphor dosimeters

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Xiao, Zhiyan ^a   Hansel, Rachael ^a   Chen, Haijian ^a   Du, Dongsu ^a   Yang, Deshan ^a   Li, H Harold ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

dosimeter; IMRT; storage phosphor

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; HEAT TREATMENT; INFRARED DEVICES; IRRADIATION; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; PHOSPHORS; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; STABILIZATION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TRAPPED IONS; X RAYS;

ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; EXTERNAL EXCITATION; IMRT; NEAR INFRARED LIGHT; PHOTO STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; STORAGE PHOSPHORS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPORAL STABILITY;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS;

PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; EUROPIUM;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETER; LIGHT; LOW TEMPERATURE; LUMINESCENCE; MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; X IRRADIATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; TIME;

EUROPIUM; LUMINESCENCE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RADIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84873574864     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4789482     Document Type: Article

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