A test tool for the visual verification of light and radiation fields using film or an electronic portal imaging device

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 239-243

  Dunscombe, Peter ^a,b,c   Humphreys, Sonja ^a   Leszczynski, Konrad ^a,b,c  

^a Northeastern Ontario Regional Cancer Centre   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

EPID; Quality assurance; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANCE CONTROL; DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; DISPLAY PARAMETERS; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; EPID; IMAGE RECEPTORS; QUALITY CONTROL PROTOCOL; VISUAL VERIFICATION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; FILM; LIGHT; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION FIELD;

EID: 0032914529     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598522     Document Type: Article

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