The use of a treatment planning system to investigate the potential for transmission dosimetry in detecting patient breathing during breast 3D CRT

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 110-121

  Reich, Paul D ^a,c   Bezak, E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Department of Paediatric Emergency Medicine   (Australia)

Author keywords

In vivo dosimetry; Portal dose prediction; Transmission dosimetry

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; ERRORS; RADIOTHERAPY;

CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; EFFECTIVE BEAMS; IN-VIVO; PATIENT BREATHING; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; TREATMENT PLANS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BREAST; BREATHING; BREATHING MECHANICS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTION; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION DOSIMETRY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 48149106689     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03178585     Document Type: Article

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