Treatment verification in the presence of inhomogeneities using EPID-based three-dimensional dose reconstruction

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2816-2826

  Van Elmpt, Wouter J C ^a   Nijsten, Sebastiaan M J J G ^a   Dekker, André L A J ^a   Mijnheer, Ben J ^a   Lambin, Philippe ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EPID; IMRT verification; Monte Carlo dose calculation; Portal dosimetry; Pre treatment verification

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ENGINES; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE;

EPID; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; MONTE CARLO DOSE ENGINES; PORTAL DOSIMETRIES; PRE-TREATMENT; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LUNG; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; HUMAN; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34347407383     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2742778     Document Type: Article

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