Dosimetric verification of the 95% isodose surface for a conformal irradiation technique

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 424-434

  Brugmans, Marco J P ^a   Van Der Horst, Astrid ^a   Lebesque, Joos V ^a   Mijnheer, Ben J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3 D dose calculations; Conformal therapy; Quality assurance; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

IRRADIATION; STATISTICS;

CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; CONFORMAL THERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STANDARD DEVIATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0031968093     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598217     Document Type: Article

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