Patient specific treatment verifications for helical tomotherapy treatment plans

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3793-3800

  Thomas, S D ^a,b   Mackenzie, M ^a,b   Field, G C ^a,b   Syme, A M ^a   Fallone, B G ^a,b  

^a CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL STRUCTURES; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE MEASUREMENT; FILM MEASUREMENT; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; PATIENT SPECIFIC; TREATMENT PLANS; TREATMENT VERIFICATION;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; EVALUATION; FILM; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEASUREMENT; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING; BIOPHYSICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; LASER; NEOPLASM; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICS;

BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; LASERS; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 33645007934     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2134929     Document Type: Article

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