Quality assurance methodology for Varian RapidArc treatment plans

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 130-143

  Iftimia, Ileana ^a,b   Cirino, Eileen T ^a   Xiong, Li ^a   Mower, Herbert W ^a,b  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Exradin A16 ion chamber; Mapcheck Mapphan 5 2D diode array; Patient specific rapidArc QA; QUASAR phantom; RadCalc MU calculation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650058434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v11i4.3164     Document Type: Article

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