Design, development, and implementation of the Radiological Physics Center's pelvis and thorax anthropomorphic quality assurance phantoms

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2070-2076

  Followill, David S ^a   Evans, DeeAnn Radford ^a   Cherry, Christopher ^a   Molineu, Andrea ^a   Fisher, Gary ^a   Hanson, William F ^a   Ibbott, Geoffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropomorphic phantoms; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIATION; RADIOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; COMMISSIONING PROCESS; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IRRADIATION CONDITIONS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION TREATMENTS; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY;

PHANTOMS;

ANATOMY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENT; DOSIMETRY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 34447325660     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2737158     Document Type: Article

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