On the sensitivity of patient-specific IMRT QA to MLC positioning errors

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 120-128

  Yan, Guanghua ^a   Liu, Chihray ^a   Simon, Thomas A ^a   Peng, Lee Cheng ^a   Fox, Christopher ^a   Li, Jonathan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; IMRT; MLC positioning error; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 70049110836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v10i1.2915     Document Type: Article

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