The validation of tomotherapy dose calculations in low-density lung media

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2315-2322

  Chaudhari, Summer R ^a   Pechenaya, Olga L ^a   Goddu, S Murty ^a   Mutic, Sasa ^a   Rangaraj, Dharanipathy ^a   Bradley, Jeffrey D ^a   Low, Daniel ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTABLE LIMITS; CALCULATION ACCURACIES; DOSE CALCULATIONS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ESOPHAGEAL CANCERS; FILM ANALYSIS; GAMMA ANALYSIS; GAMMA TESTS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIAS; RADIOCHROMIC FILM DOSIMETRIES; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; TREATMENT PLANS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; HEAT SHIELDING; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; LIGHT WEIGHT ROLLING STOCK;

IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS;

ARTICLE; FILM DOSIMETER; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOTHERAPY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FILM DOSIMETRY; HUMANS; LUNG; MEDIASTINUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 64549121050     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/8/004     Document Type: Article

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