Analysis of mechanical sources of patient alignment errors in radiation therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2698-2704

  Wyman, Douglas R ^a   Ostapiak, Orest Z ^a   Gamble, Lisa M ^a  

^a Hamilton Regional Cancer Centre   (United States)

Author keywords

Mechanical errors; Misalignments; Positioning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL; ACCURACY; CALCULATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MECHANICS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARTIFACTS; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALIGNMENT; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PATIENT TREATMENT; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

HORIZONTAL FIELDS; INTENSITY-MODULATED; MECHANICAL ERRORS; MECHANICAL TOLERANCES; MISALIGNMENTS; POSITIONING; RADIATION TREATMENTS; ROTATIONAL AXES;

FITS AND TOLERANCES;

EID: 0036851637     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1517047     Document Type: Article

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