A personal-computer-based method to obtain "star-shots" of mechanical and optical isocenters for gantry rotation of linear accelerators

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2753-2755

  Woo, M K ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Linac quality assurance; Mechanical isocenter; Optical isocenter

Indexed keywords

LINEAR ACCELERATORS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; STARS;

COMPUTER-BASED METHODS; DIGITAL IMAGE; FIXED CAMERAS; GANTRY ANGLES; HIGH RESOLUTION; ISOCENTERS; MULTIPLE EXPOSURE; QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCEDURES;

PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MICROCOMPUTER; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION;

EID: 0036913326     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1521937     Document Type: Article

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