Patient specific IMRT quality assurance with film, ionization chamber and detector arrays: Our institutional experience

Radiation Physics and Chemistry

Volumn 115, Issue , 2015, Pages 12-16

  Cruz, Wilbert ^a   Narayanasamy, Ganesh ^a   Regan, Morgan ^a   Mavroidis, Panayiotis ^a   Papanikolaou, Niko ^a   Ha, Chul S ^a   Stathakis, Sotirios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; IMRT QA; QA analysis; QA techniques

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL TELEVISION; DOSIMETRY; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PATIENT MONITORING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY;

ANATOMICAL LOCATIONS; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; IMRT QA; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; QA ANALYSIS; QA TECHNIQUES; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; IMAGING PHANTOM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY EQUIPMENT; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; TOMOTHERAPY SYSTEM; X RAY FILM;

EID: 84930936465     PISSN: 0969806X     EISSN: 18790895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2015.06.002     Document Type: Article

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