Enhanced efficiency in helical tomotherapy quality assurance using a custom-designed water-equivalent phantom

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 5663-5674

  Goddu, S Murty ^a   Mutic, Sasa ^a   Pechenaya, Olga L ^a   Chaudhari, Summer R ^a   Garcia Ramirez, Jose ^a   Rangaraj, Dharanipathy ^a   Klein, Eric E ^a   Yang, Deshan ^a   Grigsby, James ^a   Low, Daniel A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPTH DOSE; DOSE DELIVERY; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ENHANCED EFFICIENCY; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; IMAGE-GUIDED; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEASUREMENT POINTS; MEGAVOLTAGE; OFF-AXIS; REGISTRATION ACCURACY; TARGET LOCALIZATION; TOMOTHERAPY; TOMOTHERAPY MACHINES;

FLOW PATTERNS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TOMOGRAPHY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENSITY; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOTHERAPY;

PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; WATER;

EID: 70350645490     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/19/001     Document Type: Article

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