Pre-treatment dosimetric verification by means of a liquid-filled electronic portal imaging device during dynamic delivery of intensity modulated treatment fields

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 181-190

  van Esch, Ann ^a   Vanstraelen, Bianca ^a   Verstraete, Jan ^a   Kutcher, Gerald ^a   Huyskens, Dominque ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dosimetric verification; Dynamic multileaf collimator; Liquid filled electronic portal imaging device

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICE; FILM DOSIMETER; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LIQUID; PHOTON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; VELOCITY;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0034957234     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(01)00305-X     Document Type: Article

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