Multi-institutional Dosimetric and geometric commissioning of image-guided small animal irradiators

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Lindsay, P E ^a,d   Granton, P V ^b   Gasparini, A ^c   Jelveh, S ^a,d   Clarkson, R ^d,g   Van Hoof, S ^b   Hermans, J ^b   Kaas, J ^c   Wittkamper, F ^c   Sonke, J J ^c   Verhaegen, F ^e   Jaffray, D A ^a,f  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^g Mid South Radiation Physics Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

image guidance; kV dosimetry; pre clinical; small animal irradiation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; IRRADIATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

EQUIVALENT DIAMETER; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; IMAGE GUIDANCES; LIQUID IONIZATION CHAMBERS; MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PRE-CLINICAL; SMALL ANIMAL; SOURCE-TO-DETECTORS;

X RAY DETECTORS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FILTRATION; GEOMETRY; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIOTHERAPY UNIT; X RAY TUBE; ANIMAL; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; X RAY;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; X-RAYS;

EID: 84896752020     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4866215     Document Type: Article

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