MU-Tomo: Independent dose validation software for helical tomotherapy

Journal of Cancer Science and Therapy

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 145-152

  Papanikolaou, Nikos ^a   He, Weihong ^a   Luis, A Vazquez Q ^a   Gutierrez, Alonso ^a   Stathakis, Sotirios ^a   Alkhatib, Hassaan ^b   Shi, Chengyu ^a  

^a University of Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

^b South Carolina Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose verification; Independent dose calculation; Second check; TomoTherapy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSIMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; QUALITY CONTROL; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 77957933150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19485956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4172/1948-5956.1000040     Document Type: Article

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