Commissioning and comprehensive evaluation of the ArcCHECK cylindrical diode array for VMAT pretreatment delivery QA

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 212-225

  Chaswal, Vibha ^a   Weldon, Michael ^a   Gupta, Nilendu ^a   Chakravarti, Arnab ^a   Rong, Yi ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angular dependence; ArcCHECK commissioning; ArcCHECK diode array; ArcCHECK evaluation; Quality assurance; Volumetric modulated arc therapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84965093881     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v15i4.4832     Document Type: Article

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