Report of AAPM TG 135: Quality assurance for robotic radiosurgery

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2914-2936

  Dieterich, Sonja ^a   Cavedon, Carlo ^b   Chuang, Cynthia F ^c   Cohen, Alan B ^d   Garrett, Jeffrey A ^e   Lee, Charles L ^f   Lowenstein, Jessica R ^g   D'Souza, Maximian F ^h   Taylor, David D ⁱ   Wu, Xiaodong ^j   Yu, Cheng ^k  

^a STANFORD CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ACCURAY INCORPORATED   (United States)

^e Department of Pathology   (United States)

^f CK Solutions Inc ^*  (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^h St Anthony Hospital Oklahoma City   (United States)

ⁱ US Radiosurgery   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

quality assurance; radiation therapy; robotic radiosurgery; stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

RADIOTHERAPY; ROBOTICS; VERIFICATION;

CODE OF PRACTICE; MAIN CHARGE; RADIOSURGERY; REAL- TIME; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; RESPIRATORY MOTION TRACKING; ROBOTIC RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TASK GROUPS; VERIFICATION TECHNIQUES;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 79958823215     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3579139     Document Type: Article

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