Confidence limit variation for a single IMRT system following the TG119 protocol

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1641-1648

  Gordon, J D ^a   Krafft, S P ^a   Jang, S ^a   Smith Raymond, L ^a   Stevie, M Y ^a   Hamilton, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

commissioning; IMRT; quality assurance

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE FILMS; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; PHANTOMS; PLANNING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; WATER TREATMENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMMISSIONING; CONFIDENCE LIMIT; FIELD EVALUATION; FIELD MEASUREMENT; IMRT; MACHINE PERFORMANCE; SYSTEM ACCURACY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 79952139734     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3555298     Document Type: Article

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