MapCHECK used for rotational IMRT measurements: Step-and-shoot, Tomotherapy, RapidArc

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2837-2846

  Jursinic, Paul A ^a   Sharma, Renu ^a   Reuter, Jim ^a  

^a West Michigan Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

IMRT; IMRT QA; MapCHECK; RapidArc; TomoTherapy

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIODES; PHANTOMS;

IMRT; IMRT QA; MAPCHECK; RAPIDARC; TOMOTHERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 77953518833     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3431994     Document Type: Article

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