On the insensitivity of single field planar dosimetry to IMRT inaccuracies

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2516-2524

  Kruse, Jon J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; IMRT; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONS; PHANTOMS; PIXELS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; DOSIMETRIC ERRORS; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; FIELD MEASUREMENT; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; IMRT; ION CHAMBER ARRAYS; PLANAR MEASUREMENTS;

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 77953487894     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3425781     Document Type: Article

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