Portal scatter to primary dose ratio of 4 to 18 MV photon spectra incident on heterogeneous phantoms

Electronic portal imagers designed and used to verify the positioning of a cancer patient undergoing radiation treatment can also be employed to measure the in vivo dose received by the patient. This thesis investigates the ratio of the dose from patient-scattered particles to the dose from primary...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ozard, Siobhan R.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13779