VMAT QA: Measurement-guided 4D dose reconstruction on a patient

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4228-4238

  Nelms, Benjamin E ^a   Opp, Daniel ^b   Robinson, Joshua ^c   Wolf, Theresa K ^d   Zhang, Geoffrey ^b   Moros, Eduardo ^b   Feygelman, Vladimir ^b  

^a Canis Lupus LLC   (United States)

^b H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d Live Oak Technologies LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

4D dose reconstruction; dosimetry; rotational therapy; semiconductor detectors; VMAT QA

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONS; PHANTOMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; CYLINDRICAL SURFACE; DOSE RECONSTRUCTION; ROTATIONAL THERAPY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; VMAT QA; WATER EQUIVALENT PHANTOMS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 84864229925     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4729709     Document Type: Article

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