Advances in kilovoltage x-ray beam dosimetry

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Hill, Robin ^a,b   Healy, Brendan ^c   Holloway, Lois ^a,d   Kuncic, Zdenka ^a   Thwaites, David ^a   Baldock, Clive ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Chris O Brien Lifehouse   (Australia)

^c INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^d LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

dosimetry; ionization chambers; kilovoltage x ray beams; Monte Carlo methods; phantoms

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS;

CLINICAL MEASUREMENTS; INTRA-OPERATIVE; MEDICAL PHYSICISTS; MONTE CARLO CODES; PHANTOM MATERIALS; RADIATION TRANSPORT PROBLEMS; TREATMENT PLANNING; X RAY BEAM;

X RAYS;

ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; REVIEW; X RAY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION; X-RAYS;

EID: 84896754382     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/6/R183     Document Type: Review

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