IMRT Quality Assurance Using a Second Treatment Planning System

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 274-279

  Anjum, Muhammad Naeem ^a,b   Parker, William ^a,b   Ruo, Russell ^a,b   Aldahlawi, Ismail ^a,b   Afzal, Muhammad ^a,b  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b THE ISLAMIA UNIVERSITY OF BAHAWALPUR   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

IMRT QA; Independent dose calculation; Monitor unit verification

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FILM; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUEBEC; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78049480144     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2009.09.001     Document Type: Article

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