Dosimetric verification of radiotherapy treatment planning systems: Results of IAEA pilot study

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 338-346

  Gershkevitsh, Eduard ^a   Schmidt, Rainer ^b   Velez, Graciela ^c   Miller, Dan ^d   Korf, Erhardt ^e   Yip, Fernando ^f   Wanwilairat, Somsak ^g   Vatnitsky, Stanislav ^h  

^a North Estonia Regional Hospital   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c CABIN   (Argentina)

^d LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Southern Cross Hospital   (South Africa)

^f INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ONCOLOGÍA Y RADIOBIOLOGÍA   (Cuba)

^g CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^h INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; QA; TPS

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; THORAX;

EID: 56949088380     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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