Independent verification of gantry angle for pre-treatment VMAT QA using EPID

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 6587-6600

  Adamson, Justus ^a   Wu, Qiuwen ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; GANTRY ANGLES; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; PIXEL LINEARITY; PRE-TREATMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANS; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

MEDICINE; PHYSICS;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL;

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84867244530     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/20/6587     Document Type: Article

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