Can small field diode correction factors be applied universally?

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 442-446

  Liu, Paul Z Y ^a,b   Suchowerska, Natalka ^a,b   McKenzie, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b The Chris O Brien Lifehouse   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diodes; Dosimetry; Output factors; Scintillation; Small fields

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DIODE; DIODE CORRECTION FACTOR; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; IRRADIATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTION; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION RELATED PHENOMENA; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SCINTILLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84911003190     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2014.08.009     Document Type: Article

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