Verification of helical tomotherapy delivery using autoassociative kernel regression

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 3249-3262

  Seibert, Rebecca M ^a,b   Ramsey, Chester R ^a,b   Garvey, Dustin R ^a   Wesley Hines, J ^a   Robison, Ben H ^a,b   Outten, Samuel S ^b  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b THOMPSON CANCER SURVIVAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical modeling; Kernel regression; Quality assurance; Sinogram detector data; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ERROR DETECTION; FORECASTING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING; EMPIRICAL MODEL; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KERNEL REGRESSION; MINIMUM DETECTABLE ERROR; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; SINOGRAMS; TOMOTHERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KERNEL METHOD; LUNG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSOR; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34547455929     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2754059     Document Type: Article

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