Toward optimizing patient-specific IMRT QA techniques in the accurate detection of dosimetrically acceptable and unacceptable patient plans

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  McKenzie, Elizabeth M ^a   Balter, Peter A ^b   Stingo, Francesco C ^b   Jones, Jimmy ^c   Followill, David S ^b   Kry, Stephen F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

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

^c Porter Adventist Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

IMRT; patient specific; quality assurance; ROC

Indexed keywords

DIODES; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONS; IRRADIATION; PHANTOMS; PIXELS; RADIOTHERAPY;

DIODE ARRAYS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; OPTIMAL THRESHOLD; PATIENT SPECIFIC; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOMS; RADIOGRAPHIC FILMS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIFIC INTENSITY;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

ANTERIOR DELIVERED COMPOSITE TWO DIMENSIONAL DIODE ARRAY; ARTICLE; DIODE; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; HELICAL DIODE ARRAY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT PLANNING; X RAY FILM; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; DEVICES; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; IMAGING PHANTOM; PROCEDURES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM;

AREA UNDER CURVE; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84922463784     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4899177     Document Type: Article

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