Dose reconstruction for volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) using cone-beam CT and dynamic log files

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3597-3610

  Qian, Jianguo ^a   Lee, Louis ^a   Liu, Wu ^a   Chu, Karen ^a   Mok, Edward ^a   Luxton, Gary ^a   Le, Quynh Thu ^a   Xing, Lei ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE-BEAM CT; CONFORMAL RADIATION THERAPY; CONTROL POINT; DICOM-RT; DOSE DELIVERY; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE RECONSTRUCTION; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; GANTRY ANGLES; LEAF POSITION; LOG FILE; MONITOR UNITS; PHANTOM EXPERIMENT; PRE-TREATMENT; RADIATION THERAPY; SENSITIVE STRUCTURE; SETUP ERRORS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; TREATMENT PLANS; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; ERRORS; RADIOTHERAPY; REPAIR;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; RADIATION DOSE; UNCERTAINTY; VALIDATION STUDY;

CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SOFTWARE; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 77953815615     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/13/002     Document Type: Article

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