On using 3D γ-analysis for IMRT and VMAT pretreatment plan QA

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3051-3059

  Wu, Chuan ^a   Hosier, Kelly E ^a   Beck, Kristen E ^a   Radevic, Marlyn B ^a   Lehmann, Joerg ^a   Zhang, Hao H ^b   Kroner, Aaron ^a   Dutton, Sharon C ^a   Rosenthal, Seth A ^a   Bareng, Jonathan K ^a   Logsdon, Mark D ^a   Asche, David R ^a  

^a Radiological Associates of Sacramento Medical Group Inc   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

3D Gamma; EPID; IMRT; QA; VMAT

Indexed keywords

3D-GAMMA; BACK PROJECTION; EPID; GAMMA ANALYSIS; IMRT; PRE-TREATMENT; STATISTICAL CORRELATION; VMAT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84863527560     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4711755     Document Type: Article

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