Detector density and small field dosimetry: Integral versus point dose measurement schemes

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Underwood, T S A ^a   Winter, H C ^b   Hill, M A ^a   Fenwick, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

correction factor; detector; Monte Carlo; output factor; small beams

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS;

COMPENSATED DETECTORS; CORRECTION FACTORS; DETECTOR POSITIONS; HIGH-RESOLUTION GRIDS; INTEGRATED DETECTORS; OUTPUT FACTORS; SMALL BEAMS; WATER EQUIVALENCE;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

WATER;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DENSITY; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; IONIZATION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTOR; SIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; PROCEDURES;

MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84881620922     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4812687     Document Type: Article

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