Catching errors with patient-specific pretreatment machine log file analysis

Practical Radiation Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 80-90

  Rangaraj, Dharanipathy ^a   Zhu, Mingyao ^a   Yang, Deshan ^a   Palaniswaamy, Geethpriya ^a   Yaddanapudi, Sridhar ^a   Wooten, Omar H ^a   Brame, Scott ^a   Mutic, Sasa ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA SYNTHESIS; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MACHINE LOG FILE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ERROR; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 84875681992     PISSN: 18798500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prro.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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