Introduction of a novel dose saving acquisition mode for the PortalVision™ aS500 EPID to facilitate on-line patient setup verification

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 828-831

  Vetterli, D ^a   Riem, H ^b   Aebersold, D M ^a   Greiner, R H ^a   Manser, P ^c   Cossmann, P ^a   Kemmerling, L ^a   Born, E J ^a   Mini, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dose saving acquisition mode; Electronic portal imaging; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY;

ACQUISITION MODES; CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; INDISPENSABLE TOOLS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS;

IMAGE ACQUISITION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; RISK REDUCTION;

EID: 1942484751     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1668391     Document Type: Article

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