A study on investigating the delivery parameter error effect on the variation of patient quality assurance during RapidArc treatment

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Peng, Jiayuan ^a,b   Zhang, Zhen ^a,b   Zhou, Lijun ^a,b   Zhao, Jinfang ^a,b   Wang, Jiazhou ^a,b   Kong, Lin ^a,b   Hu, Weigang ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

delivery parameter error (DPE); dynalog files; head and neck cancer; quality assurance (QA); RapidArc

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; PATIENT TREATMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE VARIATIONS; DOSIMETRIC IMPACT; DYNALOG FILES; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; PARAMETER ERROR; QUALITY ASSURANCE TOOLS; RAPIDARC;

ERRORS;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELIVERY PARAMETER ERROR; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY;

HUMANS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY SETUP ERRORS; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84874768337     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4789631     Document Type: Article

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