A study on correlation between 2D and 3D gamma evaluation metrics in patient-specific quality assurance for VMAT

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 300-308

  Rajasekaran, Dhanabalan ^a   Jeevanandam, Prakash ^a   Sukumar, Prabakar ^a   Ranganathan, Arulpandiyan ^a   Johnjothi, Samdevakumar ^a   Nagarajan, Vivekanandan ^a  

^a CANCER INSTITUTE WIA   (India)

Author keywords

3D Dosimetry; Dose verification; OCTAVIUS 4D system; VMAT QA

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; HEAD; IMAGING PHANTOM; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; NECK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; THORAX; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY; VOLUMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EVALUATION STUDY; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INDIA; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS;

GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; INDIA; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, GAMMA; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84927626677     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: 18734022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2014.05.002     Document Type: Article

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