Dosimetric accuracy of the ITP™ inverse treatment planning system

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2484-2488

  Olch, Arthur J ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy; Inverse treatment planning

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DOSIMETRY;

HIGH DOSE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INVERSE TREATMENT; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; STEP-AND-SHOOT; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSIMETRY; FILM; HUMAN; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; ABDOMINAL TUMOR; ALGORITHM; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EVALUATION; FILM DOSIMETER; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PELVIS TUMOR; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FILM DOSIMETRY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0036852440     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1513162     Document Type: Article

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