Biological consequences of MLC calibration errors in IMRT delivery and QA

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1917-1924

  Moiseenko, Vitali ^a   Lapointe, Vincent ^a   James, Kerry ^a   Yin, Lingshu ^a   Liu, Mitchell ^a   Pawlicki, Todd ^b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

EUD; IMRT; MLC; QA

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRAIN; CALIBRATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; ERRORS; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; MODULATION; UROLOGY;

CRITICAL STRUCTURES; CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; GENERALIZED EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE (GEUD); HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES;

IONS;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 84861585593     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3692177     Document Type: Article

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