A new approach to quantify the mechanical and radiation isocentres of radiotherapy treatment machine gantries

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 7109-7124

  Skworcow, Piotr ^a   Mills, John A ^b   Haas, Olivier C L ^a   Burnham, Keith J ^a  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTIMIZATION;

MACHINE GANTRY DEFLECTION; OPTICAL TRACKING; RADIATION ISOCENTRE; RANDOM ERROR;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; MACHINE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM;

EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MECHANICS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 36348997152     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/23/022     Document Type: Article

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