Development of a dosimetry inter-comparison for IMRT as part of site credentialing for a TROG multi-centre clinical trial for prostate cancer

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 195-202

  Healy, B ^a   Frantzis, J ^a   Murry, R ^a   Martin, J ^a   Middleton, M ^a   Catton, C ^b   Kron, T ^c  

^a Radiation Oncology Queensland   (Australia)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

IMRT; Multi centre clinical trials; Prostate cancer; Quality assurance; Radiochromic film dosimetry

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; CLINICAL ONCOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CT DATA; FRACTIONATED IRRADIATION; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERCOMPARISONS; INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; ONTARIO; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE CANCERS; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOCHROMIC FILM; RADIOCHROMIC FILM DOSIMETRY; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

DISEASES; EXPERIMENTS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; ONCOLOGY; PHYSICAL THERAPY; PROFITABILITY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DOSIMETRY;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

AUSTRALASIA; HUMANS; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80051682239     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13246-011-0063-7     Document Type: Article

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