Improving spot-scanning proton therapy patient specific quality assurance with HPlusQA, a second-check dose calculation engine

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  MacKin, Dennis ^a   Li, Yupeng ^a   Taylor, Michael B ^a   Kerr, Matthew ^a   Holmes, Charles ^a   Sahoo, Narayan ^a   Poenisch, Falk ^a   Li, Heng ^a   Lii, Jim ^a   Amos, Richard ^a   Wu, Richard ^a   Suzuki, Kazumichi ^a   Gillin, Michael T ^a   Zhu, X Ronald ^a   Zhang, Xiaodong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma index; IMPT; Patient quality assurance; Proton therapy; Spot scanning; index

Indexed keywords

PROTON BEAMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SCANNING;

DEGREE OF CORRELATIONS; GAMMA INDICES; IMPT; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; PROTON THERAPY; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SPOT SCANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GAMMA INDEX; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MAGNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SPECIFIC QUALITY ASSURANCE; PREDICTION; PRESCRIPTION; PROTON THERAPY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPOT SCANNING PROTON THERAPY; SYNCHROTRON; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SOFTWARE; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEM; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE;

HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; PROTON THERAPY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84890113220     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4828775     Document Type: Article

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