Accurate two-dimensional IMRT verification using a back-projection EPID dosimetry method

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 259-273

  Wendling, Markus ^a   Louwe, Robert J W ^a,b   McDermott, Leah N ^a   Sonke, Jan Jakob ^a   Van Herk, Marcel ^a   Mijnheer, Ben J ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHMS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; MODIFIED ALGORITHMS; PLAN VERIFICATIONS; PROSTATE CANCERS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICE; EVALUATION; FILM DOSIMETER; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PATIENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; RELIABILITY;

EID: 31844436637     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2147744     Document Type: Article

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