IMRT verification by three-dimensional dose reconstruction from portal beam measurements

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1847-1858

  Partridge, M ^a   Ebert, M ^a   Hesse, B M ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electronic portal imaging; IMRT verification; Megavoltage CT

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; PHANTOMS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; ATTENUATION CORRECTION; CONVOLUTION/SUPERPOSITION; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; MEGAVOLTAGE CT; PROOF-OF-PRINCIPLE EXPERIMENTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0036703540     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1494988     Document Type: Article

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