American association of physicists in medicine radiation therapy committee task group 53: Quality assurance for clinical radiotherapy treatment planning

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1773-1829

  Fraass, Benedick ^a   Doppke, Karen ^b   Hunt, Margie ^c,d   Kutcher, Gerald ^d   Starkschall, George ^e   Stern, Robin ^f   Van Dyke, Jake ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D treatment planning; Quality assurance; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE TESTS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ONCOLOGY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE TESTING;

3D TREATMENT PLANNING; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; IMAGE-BASED DEFINITIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORKS; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER SYSTEM; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PHANTOM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0031789601     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598373     Document Type: Article

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