Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) with different combinations of treatment-planning systems and linacs: Issues and how to detect them

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 182, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 481-488

  Dobler, Barbara ^b   Lorenz, Friedlieb ^c   Wertz, Hansjörg ^c   Polednik, Martin ^c   Wolff, Dirk ^c   Steil, Volker ^c   Lohr, Frank ^c   Wenz, Frederik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Commissioning; Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT); Quality assurance; System combination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSIMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEASUREMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

FILM DOSIMETRY; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33747048170     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-006-1544-6     Document Type: Article

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