Evaluation of the Delta4 phantom for IMRT and VMAT verification

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Bedford, James L ^a   Lee, Young K ^a   Wai, Philip ^a   South, Christopher P ^a   Warrington, Alan P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR RESPONSE; ANGULAR SENSITIVITY; CLINICAL USE; COMPLEX DEVICES; DIODE ARRAYS; DOSE RATE; GANTRY ANGLES; HEAD AND NECK; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MONITOR UNITS; PELVIC NODES; PHILIPS; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; STEP-AND-SHOOT; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; ONCOLOGY;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ARTICLE; DIODE; HEAD; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; IRRADIATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; NECK; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 67649889107     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/9/N04     Document Type: Article

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