The extraction of true profiles for TPS commissioning and its impact on IMRT patient-specific QA

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3661-3670

  Yan, Guanghua ^a   Fox, Christopher ^a   Liu, Chihray ^a   Li, Jonathan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Deconvolution; Detector size effect; IMRT; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DECONVOLUTION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; SIZE DETERMINATION;

DETECTOR SIZE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSIMETRIC ERRORS; IMRT; PATIENT SPECIFIC; TREATMENT PLANNING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL DETECTORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 48349092857     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2952643     Document Type: Article

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