Evaluation of a diode array for QA measurements on a helical tomotherapy unit

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3424-3430

  Langen, K M ^a   Weeks, S L ^a   Poole, D O ^a   Wagner, T H ^a   Willoughby, T R ^a   Zeidan, O A ^a   Kupelian, P A ^a   Ruchala, K J ^b   Olivera, G H ^b  

^a M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER ORLANDO   (United States)

^b TOMOTHERAPY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Diode array; Quality assurance; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON EMISSION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER TANKS;

COMMERCIAL DIODES; DIODE ARRAYS; DIODE MEASUREMENTS; FIELD FLATNESS; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; STANDARD DEVIATION; TOMOTHERAPY;

DIODES;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; DIODE; DOSIMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE;

EID: 28044432549     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2089547     Document Type: Article

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