Quality assurance for a treatment planning system in scanned ion beam therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1588-1600

  Jakel O ^a   Hartmann, G H ^a   Karger, C P ^a   Heeg, P ^a   Rassow, J ^b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Quality assurance; Scanned ion beam; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; DATA PRIVACY; GEOMETRY; HEAVY IONS; ION BEAMS; PHANTOMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SOFTWARE TESTING;

BEAM DELIVERY SYSTEMS; CONFORMAL RADIATION THERAPY; DIGITALLY RECONSTRUCTED RADIOGRAPHS; GEOMETRICAL PRECISION; GEOMETRICAL UNCERTAINTY; QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCEDURES; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

ACCEPTANCE TESTS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; IMAGING SYSTEM; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0343962206     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.599025     Document Type: Article

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