Utilizing knowledge from prior plans in the evaluation of quality assurance

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 4873-4891

  Stanhope, Carl ^a   Wu, Q Jackie ^b   Yuan, Lulin ^b   Liu, Jianfei ^b   Hood, Rodney ^b   Yin, Fang Fang ^b   Adamson, Justus ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

dosimetry; MLC positioning error; quality assurance; VMAT

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DOSIMETRY; ERRORS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PATIENT TREATMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; RANDOM ERRORS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; UROLOGY;

ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; PATIENT SPECIFIC; PATIENT'S ANATOMY; POSITIONING ERROR; PROSTATE RADIOTHERAPY; VMAT;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84930959159     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/60/12/4873     Document Type: Article

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