A novel method for estimating SBRT delivered dose with beam's-eye-view images

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 3225-3231

  Berbeco, Ross I ^a   Hacker, Fred ^a   Zatwarnicki, Chris ^a,b   Park, Sang June ^a   Ionascu, Dan ^a   O'Farrell, Desmond ^a   Mamon, Harvey J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Delivered dose; EPID; Liver; Radiotherapy; SBRT

Indexed keywords

LIVER;

DELIVERED DOSE; DOSE-RESPONSE ANALYSIS; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; EPID; SBRT; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; VERIFICATION SYSTEMS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HISTOGRAM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LIVER METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY;

EID: 46149104993     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2938514     Document Type: Article

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