RapidArc patient specific mechanical delivery accuracy under extreme mechanical limits using linac log files

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1846-1853

  Wijesooriya, Krishni ^a   Aliotta, Eric ^a   Benedict, Stanley ^a   Read, Paul ^a   Rich, Tyvin ^a   Larner, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

linac log files; MLC QA; RapidArc accuracy

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DOSIMETRY; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PATIENT TREATMENT;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DYNAMIC MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; LOG FILE; MACHINE OPERATION; MLC QA; PATIENT SPECIFIC; RAPIDARC;

VELOCITY;

EID: 84861614454     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3690464     Document Type: Article

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