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Miniature scintillating detector for small field radiation therapy

Létourneau et al., 1999

Document ID
12349579075900227445
Author
Létourneau D
Pouliot J
Roy R
Publication year
Publication venue
Medical physics

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In planning stereotactic radiosurgery treatments, depth dose curves, profiles, and dose rate of treatment beams are difficult to obtain with conventional detectors because of loss of lateral electronic equilibrium and volume averaging. A scintillating detector with high spatial …
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