On multichannel film dosimetry with channel-independent perturbations

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mendez I ^a   Peterlin, P ^a   Hudej, R ^a   Strojnik, A ^a   Casar, B ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

dosimetry; film dosimetry; multichannel dosimetry; radiochromic film

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; TRANSMISSIONS;

CHANNEL INDEPENDENT; CLOSED-FORM FORMULAE; FILM DOSIMETRY; MULTICHANNEL; NONUNIFORMITY CORRECTION; RADIOCHROMIC FILM; TRUNCATED NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION;

DOSIMETRY;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHANNEL INDEPENDENT PERTURBATION; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; EBT2 FILM DOSIMETRY; EBT3 FILM DOSIMETRY; FILM DOSIMETER; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MICKE MAYER METHOD; MULTICHANNEL FILM DOSIMETRY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOCHROMATOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERROR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRUNCATED NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; WEIGHTED MEAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE;

CALIBRATION; FILM DOSIMETRY; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 84892180403     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4845095     Document Type: Article

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