Sensitivity of volumetric modulated arc therapy patient specific QA results to multileaf collimator errors and correlation to dose volume histogram based metrics

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Coleman, Linda ^a   Skourou, Christina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

^b Saint Luke s Radiation Oncology Network at St Luke s Hospital   (Ireland)

Author keywords

3DVH; gamma index; quality assurance; Rapidarc; VMAT

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; GRAPHIC METHODS; PATIENT TREATMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

3DVH; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; GAMMA INDICES; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; RAPIDARC; STRONG CORRELATION; VMAT; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ARTICLE; BLADDER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; PROSTATE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTUM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EQUIPMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MALE; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84889680232     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4824433     Document Type: Article

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