Validation of treatment planning system data: Variation in the modelling of three 6 MV beams for extreme rectangular fields

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 329-332

  Kermode, Rachel H ^a   Little, Barbara G ^b   Richmond, Neil D ^a   Lawrence, Gill P ^a   Lambert, Geoff D ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data validation; TG53; Treatment planning system

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACHINE; MODEL; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY;

EID: 0034893319     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(01)00385-1     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. A pencil beam model for photon dose calculation
2. American Association of Physicists in Medicine Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group 53: Quality assurance for clinical radiotherapy treatment planning
3. The dosimetric verification of a pencil beam based treatment planning system