The inter- and intrafraction reproducibilities of three common IMRT delivery techniques

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4854-4860

  Buckey, Courtney R ^a   Stathakis, Sotirios ^a,b   Papanikolaou, Niko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b MC 7889 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

compensators; intensity modulation; MLC

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; RANDOM ERRORS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

COMPENSATORS; DELIVERY TECHNIQUES; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; ION CHAMBER ARRAYS; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; POSITIONING ERROR; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

GRAVITY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; GRAVITATION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77956322429     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3476413     Document Type: Article

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