The sensitivity of patient specific IMRT QC to systematic MLC leaf bank offset errors

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3862-3867

  Rangel, Alejandra ^a,b   Palte, Gesa ^a   Dunscombe, Peter ^a,b  

^a TOM BAKER CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

IMRT QC; multileaf collimator; systematic errors

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DATA TRANSFER; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATIENT TREATMENT; UROLOGY;

DOSE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; IMRT QC; MODULATED FIELD; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; OFFSET ERRORS; PATIENT SPECIFIC; VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS;

SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

ARTIFACT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; STANDARDS;

ARTIFACTS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 77954706609     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3453576     Document Type: Article

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