Efficient and reliable 3D dose quality assurance for IMRT by combining independent dose calculations with measurements

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Visser, R ^a,b   Wauben, D J L ^a   De Groot, M ^b   Godart, J ^a   Langendijk, J A ^a   Van'T Veld, A A ^a   Korevaar, E W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b HANZE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3D dose verification; dose reconstruction; IMRT; quality assurance; time efficiency

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY;

DOSE RECONSTRUCTION; DOSE VERIFICATION; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; TIME EFFICIENCIES; TIME-EFFICIENT METHODS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; BONE TISSUE; DENSITY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RELIABILITY; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME;

HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84873601763     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4774048     Document Type: Article

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