Portal dose image prediction for in vivo treatment verification completely based on EPID measurements

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 946-952

  Van Zijtveld, Mathilda ^a   Dirkx, Maarten ^a   Breuers, Marcel ^a   De Boer, Hans ^a   Heijmen, Ben ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

IMRT QA; In vivo dosimetry; PDI prediction

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; FORECASTING; PATIENT MONITORING; PHANTOMS; PIXELS; RADIOTHERAPY;

CALIBRATION MEASUREMENTS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; IMRT QA; IN-VIVO; PATIENT GEOMETRIES; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; SCATTERED RADIATIONS; TREATMENT VERIFICATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PELVIS; PHANTOM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 61349181323     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3070545     Document Type: Article

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