Accuracy of TomoTherapy treatments for superficial target volumes

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3565-3573

  Cheek, Dennis ^a   Gibbons, John P ^a,b   Rosen, Isaac I ^a,b   Hogstrom, Kenneth R ^a,b  

^a MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose verification; Film dosimetry; IMRT; Superficial dose; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; IRRADIATION; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS;

DOSE VERIFICATION; FILM DOSIMETRY; IMRT; SUPERFICIAL DOSE; TOMOTHERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

POLYSTYRENE;

ARTICLE; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; OPTICAL DENSITY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; X RAY FILM;

EID: 48349131856     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2952362     Document Type: Article

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