Seeing the invisible: Direct visualization of therapeutic radiation beams using air scintillation

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Fahimian, Benjamin ^a   Ceballos, Andrew ^b   Türkcan, Silvan ^a   Kapp, Daniel S ^a   Pratx, Guillem ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

air scintillation; optical imaging; quality assurance; radiation dosimetry

Indexed keywords

CCD CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRONS; IONIZING RADIATION; LIGHT; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

DIRECT VISUALIZATION; ELECTRON MULTIPLICATION; ON-LINE DETECTION; OPTICAL IMAGING; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; RADIATION TREATMENTS; SHORT-PASS FILTER; SKIN IRRADIATION;

SCINTILLATION;

NITROGEN;

AIR; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CHERENKOV LUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; EXCITATION; IONIZING RADIATION; LUMINESCENCE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ORTHOVOLTAGE UNIT; PHOTON; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGY PHANTOM; RADIOTHERAPY; SCINTILLATION; EQUIPMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING;

AIR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; SCINTILLATION COUNTING;

EID: 84892176053     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4851595     Document Type: Article

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