Beam commissioning and measurements validating the beam model in a new TPS that converts helical tomotherapy plans to step-and-shoot IMRT plans

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-46

  Petersson, Kristoffer ^a   Ceberg, Crister ^a   Engström, Per ^a,b   Knöös, Tommy ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

commissioning; IMRT; measurements; Verification

Indexed keywords

FITS AND TOLERANCES; MEASUREMENT; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; VERIFICATION;

AUTOMATED MODELING; COMMISSIONING; COMMISSIONING PROCESS; CONFIDENCE LIMIT; GEOMETRIC PROPERTIES; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; IMRT; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

LINEAR ACCELERATORS;

EID: 78650870342     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3519975     Document Type: Article

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