Commissioning and comprehensive quality assurance of commercial 3D treatment planning system using IAEA Technical Report Series - 430

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 207-215

  Jamema, Swamidas V ^a   Upreti, R R ^a   Sharma, S ^a   Deshpande, D D ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

IAEA TRS 430; Quality assurance; Treatment planning systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; DOSIMETRY; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

3D TREATMENT PLANNING; ANATOMICAL MODELING; COMMISSIONING TEST; COMPREHENSIVE QUALITIES; DOSIMETRIC PARAMETER; IAEA TRS 430; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PHANTOM; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 54449089632     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03179346     Document Type: Article

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