Moving from gamma passing rates to patient DVH-based QA metrics in pretreatment dose QA

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5477-5489

  Zhen, Heming ^a   Nelms, Benjamin E ^a,b   Tomé, Wolfgang A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Canis Lupus LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

IMRT; IMRT QA; quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

CLINICAL SETTINGS; DETECTOR GEOMETRY; IMRT; IMRT QA; REGION OF INTEREST; SOFTWARE ALGORITHMS; STEP-AND-SHOOT; WEAK CORRELATION;

PHANTOMS;

EID: 80053595703     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3633904     Document Type: Article

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