Evaluation of the accuracy of 3DVH software estimates of dose to virtual ion chamber and film in composite IMRT QA

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 81-86

  Olch, Arthur J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

IMRT; IMRT QA; quality assurance

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; PHANTOMS; PIXELS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; SOFTWARE TESTING;

BEAM MEASUREMENTS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; IMRT; IMRT QA; PATIENT SPECIFIC; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

IONS;

EID: 84855426326     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3666771     Document Type: Article

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