Statistical variability and confidence intervals for planar dose QA pass rates

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 6053-6064

  Bailey, Daniel W ^a,b   Nelms, Benjamin E ^c   Attwood, Kristopher ^b   Kumaraswamy, Lalith ^b   Podgorsak, Matthew B ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Canis Lupus LLC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

diode array; dose verification; dosimetry; IMRT QA; quality assurance; radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; FITS AND TOLERANCES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; SAMPLING; STATISTICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UROLOGY;

DIODE ARRAYS; DOSE VERIFICATION; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; IMRT QA; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; STATISTICAL VARIABILITY; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; USER-DEFINED PARAMETERS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 80855128877     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3651695     Document Type: Article

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