Comparison of Elekta VMAT with helical tomotherapy and fixed field IMRT: Plan quality, delivery efficiency and accuracy

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1350-1359

  Rao, Min ^a   Yang, Wensha ^b   Chen, Fan ^a   Sheng, Ke ^b   Ye, Jinsong ^a   Mehta, Vivek ^a   Shepard, David ^a   Cao, Daliang ^a  

^a SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Arc sequencing; IMRT; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Inverse planning; Tomotherapy; VMAT; Volumetric modulated arc therapy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; EFFICIENCY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; UROLOGY;

ARC SEQUENCING; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; INVERSE PLANNING; TOMOTHERAPY; VMAT; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 77749252302     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3326965     Document Type: Article

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