Plastic Water Publications
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Demez N, Lee TK. Study on the compatibility of tissue equivalent phantoms for use in proton beam therapy QA. E-Poster Presentation, European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO 31) Barcelona, Spain, 2012.
Guillot M, Beaulieu L, Archambault L, Gingras L, Beddar S. A New Water-Equivalent 2D Plastic Scintillation Detectors Array for the Dosimetry of Megavoltage Energy Photon Beams in Radiation Therapy. Medical Physics. 2011; 38(12):6763-6774. View
Xu L, McEwen M, Cojocaru C, Faddegon B. SU-FF-T-443: Measurement of Lateral Dose Distributions Using GafChromic EBT Films and PTW Starcheck 2-D Array. Medical Physics. 2009; 36(6). View
Beardmore AB, Rosen II, Cheek DA, Fields RS, Hogstrom KR. Evaluation of MVCT images with skin collimation for electron beam treatment planning. J Appl Clin Medical Physics. 2008; 9(3):2773. View
Lacroix F, Archambault L, Gingras L, et al. Clinical prototype of a plastic water-equivalent scintillating fiber dosimeter array for QA applications. Medical Physics. 2008; 35(8):3682-3690. View
Ramaseshan R, Kohli K, Cao F, Heaton R. A Dosimetric evaluation of Plastic Water-Diagnostic-Therapy (PWDT). Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics. 2008; 9(2). View
Carrasco P, Jornet N, Duch MA, et al. Comparison of dose calculation algorithms in slab phantoms with cortical bone equivalent heterogeneities. Medical Physics. 2007; 34(8):3323-3333. View
Goodsitt M, Chan H P, Way T W, et al. Accuracy of the Ct Numbers of Simulated Lung Nodules Imaged with Multi-Detector Ct Scanners. Medical Physics. 2006; 33(8):3006-3017. View
McEwen MR, Niven D. Characterization of the phantom material virtual water in high-energy photon and electron beams. Medical Physics. 2006; 33(4):876-87. View
Carrasco P, Jornet N, Duch MA, et al. Comparison of dose calculation algorithms in phantoms with lung equivalent heterogeneities under conditions of lateral electronic disequilibrium. Medical Physics. 2004; 31(10). View
Casar B, Zdesar U, & Robar V. Evaluation of water equivalency of Plastic Water™ for high-energy electron beams using IAEA TRS-398 Code of Practice. Radiology and Oncology. 2004; 38(1):55-60. View
2Heaton R, et al, Dosimetric Evaluation of Plastic Water-Diagnostic-Therapy (PWDT) Phantom Material. Poster presented at annual AAPM meeting, 2003; Poster# PO-T-97.
Saitoh H, Tomaru T, Fujisaki, T, et al. A Study on Properties of Water Substitute Solid Phantom using EGS Code. In: Vol 2002. Japan; 2003; 55-63. View
1Wallace RE. AbstractID: 8072 Title: Evaluated Phantom Material for 125I and 103Pd Dosimetry. AAPM Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada. 2002 View
Watts RJ. Method to QA 3-D Treatment Planning Systems. Presented at annual AAPM meeting, San Antonio TX, 2001; International Medical Physics Services; Poster# SU-FF-EXH C-48.
Allahverdi M, Nisbet A, Thwaites DI. An evaluation of epoxy resin phantom materials for megavoltage photon dosimetry. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 1999; 44(5). View
3Tello VM. How water equivalent are water-equivalent solid materials for output calibration of photon and electron beams? Medical Physics. 1995; 22(7). View
Tello, VM, Evaluation of Plastic Water (Cream Colored) for Absorbed Dose Calibration of Photon and Electron Beams. Presented at the AAPM Southwest Chapter Meeting, 1992.
Robinson J, Opp D, Zhang G, Feygelman V. Evaluation of inhomogeneity correction factors for 6 MV flattening filter-free beams with brass compensators. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2013;14(3):3990. View
Wack L, Ngwa W, Tryggestad E, et al. High throughput film dosimetry in homogeneous and heterogeneous media for a small animal irradiator. Phys Med. 2013. View
Berbeco RI, Korideck H, Ngwa W, et al. DNA damage enhancement from gold nanoparticles for clinical MV photon beams. Radiat Res. 2012;178(6):604-8. View
Thapa, Bishnu Bahadur, “DEVELOPMENT OF A PATIENT SPECIFIC IMAGE PLANNING SYSTEM FOR RADIATION THERAPY” (2013).Theses and Dissertations–Physics and Astronomy.Paper 11. View
Opp D, Forster K, Feygelman V. Commissioning compensator-based IMRT on the Pinnacle treatment planning system. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2011;12(2):3396. View
Gossman MS, Das IJ, Sharma SC, Lopez JP, Howard CM, Claudio P. A novel phantom model for mouse tumor dose assessment under MV beams. Health Phys. 2011;101(6):746-53. View
Wilson JP, Mulligan K, Fan B, et al. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry-based body volume measurement for 4-compartment body composition. Am J Clin Nutr. 2012;95(1):25-31. View
Bing F, Doucet R, Lacroix F, et al. Liquid embolization material reduces the delivered radiation dose: clinical myth or reality?. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2012;33(2):320-2. View
Eaton, D. J., Best, B., Brew-Graves, C., Duck, S., Ghaus, T., Gonzalez, R., Pigott, K., … Keshtgar, M. R. S. (April 01, 2012). In Vivo Dosimetry for Single-Fraction Targeted Intraoperative Radiotherapy (TARGIT) for Breast Cancer. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics, 82, 5.) View
Sethi A, Chinsky B, Gros S, Diak A, Emami B, Small W Jr. Tissue inhomogeneity corrections in low-kV intra-operative radiotherapy (IORT). Transl Cancer Res 2015;4(2):182-188. doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2218-676X.2015.04.08 View
Candela-juan C, Vijande J, García-martínez T, et al. Comparison and uncertainty evaluation of different calibration protocols and ionization chambers for low-energy surface brachytherapy dosimetry. Med Phys. 2015;42(8):4954. View
López-tarjuelo J, Morillo-macías V, Bouché-babiloni A, Ferrer-albiach C, Santos-serra A. Defining Action Levels for In Vivo Dosimetry in Intraoperative Electron Radiotherapy. Technol Cancer Res Treat. 2015;:1533034615588196. View
Chamberland, E., Beaulieu, L., & Lachance, B. (2015). Evaluation of an electron Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithm for treatment planning. Journal Of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 16(3). doi:10.1120/jacmp.v16i3.4636. View
Yeo, I., Teran, A., Ghebremedhin, A., Johnson, M., & Patyal, B. (2015). Radiographic film dosimetry of proton beams for depth-dose constancy check and beam profile measurement. Journal Of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 16(3). doi:10.1120/jacmp.v16i3.5402. View
Chang, C., Poole, K., Teran, A., Luckman, S., & Mah, D. (2015). Three-dimensional gamma criterion for patient-specific quality assurance of spot scanning proton beams. Journal Of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 16(5). doi:10.1120/jacmp.v16i5.5683. View
Louis-Philippe Gagnon, Sam Beddar, Luc Beaulieu, Characterization of a fiber-taper charge-coupled device system for plastic scintillation dosimetry and comparison with the traditional lens system, Radiation Measurements, Volume 73, February 2015, Pages 60-68, ISSN 1350-4487. View
Malkov S, Cawthon PM, Peters KW, et al. Hip Fractures Risk in Older Men and Women Associated With DXA-Derived Measures of Thigh Subcutaneous Fat Thickness, Cross-Sectional Muscle Area, and Muscle Density. J Bone Miner Res. 2015;30(8):1414-21. View
Chan E, Lydon J, Kron T. On the use of Gafchromic EBT3 films for validating a commercial electron Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithm. Phys Med Biol. 2015;60(5):2091-102. View
Carrara M, Tenconi C, Rossi G, et al. In vivo rectal wall measurements during HDR prostate brachytherapy with MOSkin dosimeters integrated on a trans-rectal US probe: Comparison with planned and reconstructed doses. Radiother Oncol. 2016;118(1):148-53. View
Tseng HC, Liu WS, Tsai HH, Chu HY, Lin JB, Chen CY. Radiation dose for normal organs by helical tomotherapy for lung cancer. Appl Radiat Isot. 2015;102:35-41. View
Mendez, I., Z. Šljivić, R. Hudej, A. Jenko, and B. Casar. “Grid Patterns, Spatial Inter-scan Variations and Scanning Reading Repeatability in Radiochromic Film Dosimetry.” Elsevier, 2016. Web. View
Zwan BJ, Hindmarsh J, Seymour E, et al. The dosimetric impact of control point spacing for sliding gap MLC fields. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2016;17(6):6345. View
Yu, P.C., H.H. Nien, and C.J. Tung. “CT-based MCNPX Dose Calculations for Gynecology Brachytherapy Employing a Henschke Applicator.” Elsevier, 2017. Web. View
Tseng HC, Liu WS, Tsai HH, Chu HY, Lin JB, Chen CY. Radiation dose for normal organs by helical tomotherapy for lung cancer. Appl Radiat Isot. 2015;102:35-41. View
Mendez, I., Z. Šljivić, R. Hudej, A. Jenko, and B. Casar. “Grid Patterns, Spatial Inter-scan Variations and Scanning Reading Repeatability in Radiochromic Film Dosimetry.” Elsevier, 2016. Web. View
Zwan BJ, Hindmarsh J, Seymour E, et al. The dosimetric impact of control point spacing for sliding gap MLC fields. J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2016;17(6):6345. View
Yu, P.C., H.H. Nien, and C.J. Tung. “CT-based MCNPX Dose Calculations for Gynecology Brachytherapy Employing a Henschke Applicator.” Elsevier, 2017. Web. View
