An analysis of confidence limit calculations used in AAPM Task Group No. 119

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1779-1784

  Knill, Cory ^a   Snyder, Michael ^a,b  

^a KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

confidence limits; Gamma index; IMRT commissioning; Task Group No. 119

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

CONFIDENCE LIMIT; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; GAMMA INDICES; IMRT COMMISSIONING; STANDARD NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TASK GROUPS; TRUNCATED DISTRIBUTIONS; TRUNCATED NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79953667043     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3560876     Document Type: Article

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