Hybrid plan verification for intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) using the 2D ionization chamber array I'mRT MatriXX - A feasibility study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Dobler, Barbara ^a   Streck, Natalia ^a,b   Klein, Elisabeth ^a,c   Loeschel, Rainer ^b   Haertl, Petra ^a   Koelbl, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; COLLAPSED CONES; CT SCAN; DOSE TOLERANCE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GAMMA TEST; GANTRY ANGLES; GERMANY; HIGH DOSE; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LOW DOSE; MONTE CARLO; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; PENCIL BEAM;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FITS AND TOLERANCES; IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; RADIOTHERAPY;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSE;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 74549163228     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/2/N02     Document Type: Article

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