Using a novel dose QA tool to quantify the impact of systematic errors otherwise undetected by conventional QA methods: Clinical head and neck case studies

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 57-67

  Chan, Maria F ^a   Li, Jingdong ^a   Schupak, Karen ^a   Burman, Chandra ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Quality assurance; Radiotherapy; Treatment planning system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNX; MEDICAL ERROR; MOUTH CAVITY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; PAROTID GLAND; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84892773055     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7785/tcrt.2012.500353     Document Type: Article

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