Commissioning, clinical implementation and quality assurance of Siemen's Virtual Wedge(TM)

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 145-153

  Rathee, S ^a   Kwok, C B ^a   MacGillivray, C ^a   Mirzaei, M ^a  

^a Medical Physics Department Manitoba Cancer Treatm Res F   (Canada)

Author keywords

Quality assurance; Radiotherapy; Treatment planning; Virtual wedge

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROL SYSTEM; DOSIMETRY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0032970704     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-3947(99)00003-5     Document Type: Article

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