In Vivo Dosimetry using Plastic Scintillation Detectors for External Beam Radiation Therapy

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12-2014 
In Vivo Dosimetry using Plastic Scintillation Detectors for External 
In Vivo Dosimetry using Plastic Scintillation Detectors for External 
Beam Radiation Therapy 
Beam Radiation Therapy 
Landon S. Wootton 
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Therapy" (2014). 
UT GSBS Dissertations and Theses (Open Access). 525. 
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IN VIVO DOSIMETRY USING PLASTIC SCINTILLATION DETECTORS FOR 
EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION THERAPY 
A 
DISSERTATION 
Presented to the Faculty of 
The University of Texas 
Health Science Center Houston 
and 
The University of Texas 
MD Anderson Cancer Center 
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences 
in Partial Fulfillment 
of the Requirements 
for the Degree of 
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY 
by 
Landon Scott Wootton, B.S. 
Houston, Texas 
December 2014 

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DEDICATION 
This work is dedicated to my loving wife and best friend Whitney, to my parents Robert 
and Cathy, my brother Marshall, to the rest of my wonderful family, and especially to 
Rudy Pirovitz: a kind hearted high school physics teacher who inspired me to be a 
physicist. 
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