Clinical evaluation of monitor unit software and the application of action levels

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 306-315

  Georg, Dietmar ^a   Nyholm, Tufve ^b   Olofsson, Jörgen ^b   Kjær Kristoffersen, Flemming ^c   Schnekenburger, Bruno ^d   Winkler, Peter ^e   Nyström, Håkan ^c   Ahnesjö, Anders ^b,f,g   Karlsson, Mikael ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g Elekta AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Action level; Dose calculation accuracy; Independent dose calculation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DENMARK; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOSIMETRY; EUROPE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONITOR UNIT VERIFICATION SOFTWARE; NONHUMAN; PELVIS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; SWITZERLAND; THORAX CANCER; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HEAD; HUMANS; PELVIS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SOFTWARE; THORAX;

EID: 36348988422     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.04.035     Document Type: Article

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