Investigation of the feasibility of relative 3D dosimetry in the Radiologic Physics Center Head and Neck IMRT phantom using Presage/optical-CT

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 3371-3377

  Sakhalkar, Harshad ^a   Sterling, David ^a   Adamovics, John ^b   Ibbott, Geoffrey ^c   Oldham, Mark ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

3D dosimetry; IMRT; Optical CT; PRESAGE; Quality assurance; Radiation; Radiological Physics Center

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HEAT RADIATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOLOGY;

CYLINDRICAL INSERTS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; HEAD AND NECK IMRT; IMRT; OPTICAL CT; PRESAGE; RADIOLOGICAL PHYSICS CENTER; TREATMENT PLANNING;

PHANTOMS;

ACCREDITATION; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; DOSIMETRY; FILM; GOLD STANDARD; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CENTER; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION PHYSICS CENTER; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 67649619540     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3148534     Document Type: Article

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