Using an EPID for patient-specific VMAT quality assurance

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1366-1373

  Bakhtiari, M ^a   Kumaraswamy, L ^a,b   Bailey, D W ^a,c   De Boer, S ^a,c   Malhotra, H K ^a,c   Podgorsak, M B ^a,c  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

EPID; QA; VMAT

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE CODING; PATIENT TREATMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

ACQUISITION MODES; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; EPID; IN-HOUSE SOFTWARE; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; VMAT; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 79952141409     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3552925     Document Type: Article

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