Commissioning and quality assurance of a commercial stereotactic treatment-planning system for extracranial IMRT

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-34

  Wang, Lu ^a   Li, Jinsheng ^a   Paskalev, Kamen ^a   Hoban, Peter ^a   Luo, Wei ^a   Chen, Lili ^a   McNeeley, Shawn ^a   Price, Robert ^a   Ma, Charlie ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; Stereotactic IMRT; Treatment planning system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; RADIOSURGERY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOMETRY; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33645394174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.2027.25368     Document Type: Article

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