Tomotherapy treatment plan quality assurance: The impact of applied criteria on passing rate in gamma index method

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Bresciani, Sara ^a   Dia, Amalia Di ^a   Maggio, Angelo ^a   Cutaia, Claudia ^a   Miranti, Anna ^a   Infusino, Erminia ^a   Stasi, Michele ^a  

^a CANDIOLO CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Gamma index; IMRT; Pretreatment quality assurance

Indexed keywords

DIODES; DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

DIFFERENCE THRESHOLD; GAMMA INDICES; GLOBAL NORMALIZATION; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; NORMALIZATION METHODS; PRE-TREATMENT; STANDARD PROCEDURES;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DIODE; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA INDEX; GEOMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MACHINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DEVICE; METHODOLOGY; PHANTOM; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; ROTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; GAMMA RADIATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MALE; NEOPLASM;

GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84890057550     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4829515     Document Type: Article

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