Verification of the linac isocenter for stereotactic radiosurgery using cine-EPID imaging and arc delivery

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3963-3970

  Rowshanfarzad, Pejman ^a   Sabet, Mahsheed ^a   O'Connor, Daryl J ^a   Greer, Peter B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b CALVARY MATER NEWCASTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

isocenter verification; quality assurance; stereotactic radiosurgery; sub millimeter accuracy

Indexed keywords

BEARINGS (MACHINE PARTS); IMAGE REGISTRATION; MATLAB; PHANTOMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY;

ANALYSIS SOFTWARES; AUTOMATIC VERIFICATION; COMPREHENSIVE METHOD; COMPREHENSIVE QUALITIES; ISOCENTERS; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; SUBMILLIMETERS; SUBPIXEL ACCURACY;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 79960262636     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3597836     Document Type: Article

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