Performance analysis of a film dosimeteric quality assurance procedure for IMRT with regard to the employment of quantitative evaluation methods

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 643-654

  Winkler, Peter ^a,b   Zurl, Brigitte ^a   Guss, Helmuth ^a   Kindl, Peter ^b   Stuecklschweiger, Georg ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DOSIMETRY; PERFORMANCE; PHOTOGRAPHIC FILMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

DOSE CONVERSION; FILM CALIBRATION; FILM DENSITY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY (IMRT);

RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DOSIMETRY; FILM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IRRADIATION; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BENCHMARKING; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FILM DOSIMETRY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 14644436391     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/4/006     Document Type: Article

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