In aqua vivo EPID dosimetry

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 367-377

  Wendling, Markus ^a,b   McDermott, Leah N ^a,c   Mans, Anton ^a   Olaciregui Ruiz, Ígor ^a   Pecharromán Gallego, Raul ^a   Sonke, Jan Jakob ^a   Stroom, Joep ^a   Van Herk, Marcel ^a   Mijnheer, Ben J ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dose verification; EPID; in vivo dosimetry; lung cancer; quality assurance

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PATIENT MONITORING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TISSUE;

BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHMS; DOSE VERIFICATION; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; EPID; IN-VIVO; INHOMOGENEITY CORRECTION; LUNG CANCER; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

EID: 84855436730     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3665709     Document Type: Article

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