Dose verification in clinical imrt prostate incidents

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1540-1547

  Sandilos, Panagiotis ^a,b   Angelopoulos, Angelos ^c   Baras, Panagiotis ^c,d   Dardoufas, Konstantinos ^a,b   Karaiskos, Pantelis ^a,c   Kipouros, Panagiotis ^c,e   Kozicki, Marek ^f   Rosiak, Janusz M ^f   Sakelliou, Loukas ^c   Seimenis, Ioannis ^c,d   Vlahos, Lampros ^b  

^a HYGEIA HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^e GREEK ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION   (Greece)

^f LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Film; IMRT; Polymer gel dosimetry

Indexed keywords

INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY (IMRT); POLYMER GELS;

DISEASE CONTROL; DOSIMETRY; GELS; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; FILM DOSIMETER; GEL; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

HUMANS; MALE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 3242717970     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.04.029     Document Type: Article

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