An extensive log-file analysis of step-and-shoot intensity modulated radiation therapy segment delivery errors

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1593-1602

  Stell, Anthony M ^a   Li, Jonathan G ^a   Zeidan, Omar A ^a   Dempsey, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

IMRT; IMRT treatment plan verification; MLC

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; RADIOTHERAPY;

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; IMRT; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANS; VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS;

ERRORS;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

MUS;

EID: 3042548119     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1751011     Document Type: Article

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