Clinical introduction of a linac head-mounted 2D detector array based quality assurance system in head and neck IMRT

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 446-452

  Korevaar, Erik W ^a   Wauben, David J L ^a   Van Der Hulst, Peter C ^a   Langendijk, Johannes A ^a   Van'T Veld, Aart A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

2D ionization chamber array; Dose reconstruction; Film dosimetry; Gamma index analysis; IMRT QA

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DETECTOR; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CALIBRATION; FILM DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80054086840     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.09.007     Document Type: Article

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