Pretreatment patient-specific IMRT quality assurance: A correlation study between gamma index and patient clinical dose volume histogram

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 7626-7634

  Stasi, M ^a   Bresciani, S ^a   Miranti, A ^a   Maggio, A ^a   Sapino, V ^a   Gabriele, P ^a  

^a CANDIOLO CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

dosimetry; gamma pass method; IMRT; pretreatment quality assurance

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; GRAPHIC METHODS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VERIFICATION; ZONING;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GAMMA PASS METHOD; HIGH-RISK PROSTATE CANCERS; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; PRE-TREATMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84870943985     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4767763     Document Type: Article

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