A novel technique for VMAT QA with EPID in cine mode on a Varian TrueBeam linac

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 58, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 6683-6700

  Liu, Bo ^a,b   Adamson, Justus ^b   Rodrigues, Anna ^b   Zhou, Fugen ^a   Yin, Fang Fang ^b   Wu, Qiuwen ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINED ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PHOTON ENERGY; PRE-TREATMENT; ROTATION SPEED; TREATMENT MODALITY; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

ERRORS; PHOTONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEDICAL ERROR; QUALITY CONTROL; DEVICES;

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; MEDICAL ERRORS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84884607600     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/58/19/6683     Document Type: Article

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