VERIDOS: A new tool for quality assurance for intensity modulated radiotherapy

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 178, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 732-736

  Wiezorek, Tilo ^a   Schwedas, Michael ^a   Scheithauer, Marcel ^a   Salz, Henning ^a   Bellemann, Matthias ^b   Wendt, Thomas G ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Film dosimetry; IMRT; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMERA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; FILM DOSIMETER; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIOTHERAPY; RELIABILITY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036905697     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-002-0986-8     Document Type: Article

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