Portal dosimetry for VMAT using integrated images obtained during treatment

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Bedford, James L ^a   Hanson, Ian M ^a   Hansen, Vibeke Nordmark ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

arc therapy; electronic portal imaging device; in vivo dosimetry; verification; VMAT

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; DOSIMETRY; ERRORS; FORECASTING; IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; VERIFICATION;

ARC THERAPY; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; EXPONENTIAL ATTENUATION; IN-VIVO; PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS; STOCKHOLM , SWEDEN; VMAT; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

PHANTOMS;

WATER;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; DOSIMETRY; ESOPHAGUS; HUMAN; IMAGING PHANTOM; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LUNG; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PORTAL DOSIMETRY; PROSTATE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOMETRY;

IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84894261864     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4862515     Document Type: Article

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