Fast, daily linac verification for segmented IMRT using electronic portal imaging

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 86-92

  Vieira, Sandra C ^a   Bolt, René A ^b   Dirkx, Maarten L P ^a   Visser, Andries G ^c   Heijmen, Ben J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EPID; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Quality assurance; Segmented multileaf collimation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRON ACCELERATOR; HYSTERESIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEASUREMENT; MONITOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

CALIBRATION; ELECTRONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33746969105     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2006.06.010     Document Type: Article

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