A system for EPID-based real-time treatment delivery verification during dynamic IMRT treatment

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Fuangrod, Todsaporn ^a   Woodruff, Henry C ^a   Van Uytven, Eric ^b,c   McCurdy, Boyd M C ^b,c   Kuncic, Zdenka ^d   O'Connor, Daryl J ^a   Greer, Peter B ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b CANCERCARE MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e CALVARY MATER NEWCASTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

EPID; intensity modulated radiotherapy; real time treatment verification

Indexed keywords

ERRORS;

ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; EPID; FRAME-BY-FRAME ANALYSIS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; PHYSICS-BASED MODELING; SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD; TREATMENT VERIFICATION; VERIFICATION SYSTEMS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING EQUIPMENT; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICE; GAMMA RADIATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PHYSICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; REFERENCE DATABASE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERAPEUTIC ERROR; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MALE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIOTHERAPY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; DEVICES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY SETUP ERRORS; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84883770810     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4817484     Document Type: Article

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