Consequences of leaf calibration errors on IMRT delivery

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1147-1156

  Sastre Padro, M ^a   Welleweerd, J ^b   Malinen, E ^a   Eilertsen, K ^a   Olsen, D R ^a   Van Der Heide, U A ^b  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IRRADIATION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

CALIBRATION ERRORS; DOSES; POSITIONING ERRORS; THERAPEUTIC CONSEQUENCES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RADIATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FILM DOSIMETER; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ARTIFACTS; CALIBRATION; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FILM DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34247120245     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/4/019     Document Type: Article

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