Preliminary investigations on the determination of three-dimensional dose distributions using scintillator blocks and optical tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Kroll, Florian ^a   Pawelke, Jörg ^a,b   Karsch, Leonhard ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D dosimetry; optical tomography; scintillator; teletherapy

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONS; FILM PREPARATION; IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONIZING RADIATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOSPHORS; POLYMER FILMS; PROTON IRRADIATION; QUENCHING; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INORGANIC SCINTILLATOR; IRRADIATION EXPERIMENTS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; TELETHERAPY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DETECTORS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

POLYMER; PROTON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREMS RADIATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; GEL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IONIZATION CHAMBER; IONIZING RADIATION; IRRADIATION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SCINTIGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; EQUIPMENT; LASER; RADIOMETRY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; TIME; DEVICES;

ELECTRONS; LASERS; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 84881651036     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4813898     Document Type: Article

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