Two years experience with quality assurance protocol for patient related Rapid Arc treatment plan verification using a two dimensional ionization chamber array

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Wagner, Daniela ^a   Vorwerk, Hilke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; REPRODUCIBILITY; TREATMENT PLANNING; AIR; CARCINOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PELVIS; PROSTATE TUMOR; RECTUM TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; TIME;

AIR IONIZATION; CARCINOMA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PELVIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79951785189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-6-21     Document Type: Article

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