Experimental validation of a commercial 3D dose verification system for intensity-modulated arc therapies

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 5619-5633

  Boggula, Ramesh ^a   Lorenz, Friedlieb ^a,b   Mueller, Lutz ^c   Birkner, Mattias ^c   Wertz, Hansjoerg ^a   Stieler, Florian ^a   Steil, Volker ^a   Lohr, Frank ^a   Wenz, Frederik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b DUNEDIN HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^c IBA Dosimetry   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY; X RAY FILM;

HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; X-RAY FILM;

EID: 78149308084     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/19/001     Document Type: Article

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