3D DVH-based metric analysis versus per-beam planar analysis in IMRT pretreatment verification

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 5040-5049

  Carrasco, Pablo ^a   Jornet, Núria ^a   Latorre, Artur ^a   Eudaldo, Teresa ^a   Ruiz, Agustí ^a   Ribas, Montserrat ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gamma analysis; IMRT QA; Pretreatment verification

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; PATIENT TREATMENT;

DETECTOR PANELS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; GAMMA ANALYSIS; IMRT QA; PRE-TREATMENT; REAL MEASUREMENTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 84864701518     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4736949     Document Type: Article

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