Commissioning and dosimetric characteristics of TrueBeam system: Composite data of three TrueBeam machines

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 6981-7018

  Chang, Zheng ^a   Wu, Qiuwen ^a   Adamson, Justus ^a   Ren, Lei ^a   Bowsher, James ^a   Yan, Hui ^a   Thomas, Andrew ^a   Yin, Fang Fang ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

commissioning; flattening filter free (FFF); TrueBeam linear accelerator

Indexed keywords

GATING AND FEEDING; HADRONS; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; TESTING;

COMMISSIONING; FLATTENING FILTER FREE; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; INTEGRATED IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; LIMITED INFORMATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 84868548547     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4762682     Document Type: Article

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