An analysis of tolerance levels in IMRT quality assurance procedures

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2300-2307

  Basran, Parminder S ^a,b   Woo, Milton K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dose calculation; Dose verification; IMRT; Quality assurance; Radiation treatment planning

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DIODES; FITS AND TOLERANCES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY;

DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE VERIFICATION; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MONITOR UNIT CALCULATIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCEDURES; RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; HEAD; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; NECK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 44349152982     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2919075     Document Type: Article

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