Use of treatment log files in spot scanning proton therapy as part of patient-specific quality assurance

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Li, Heng ^a   Sahoo, Narayan ^a   Poenisch, Falk ^a   Suzuki, Kazumichi ^a   Li, Yupeng ^a   Li, Xiaoqiang ^a   Zhang, Xiaodong ^a   Lee, Andrew K ^a   Gillin, Michael T ^a   Zhu, X Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

dose verification; patient specific QA; proton therapy; scanning beam proton therapy

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROTON BEAMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SCANNING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BEAM DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DOSE VERIFICATION; PATIENT SPECIFIC; PROTON THERAPY; QUALITY ASSURANCE TOOLS; SPOT SCANNING PROTON BEAM THERAPIES; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; MONITOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; PROTON THERAPY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; X RAY FILM; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; RADIOMETRY; RESEARCH; UNCERTAINTY;

HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PROTON THERAPY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESEARCH REPORT; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84873598157     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4773312     Document Type: Article

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