Benchmarking beam alignment for a clinical helical tomotherapy device
| Autor: | Robert Jeraj, John Balog, Thomas Rockwell Mackie, Bhudatt R. Paliwal, D. W. Pearson, S Hui |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Engineering drawing medicine.medical_specialty Film Dosimetry medicine.medical_treatment Sensitivity and Specificity Tomotherapy Linear particle accelerator Collimated light medicine Humans Dosimetry Medical physics Computed radiography Radiometry Physics Detector Reproducibility of Results Radiotherapy Dosage General Medicine Radiotherapy Computer-Assisted Equipment Failure Analysis Multileaf collimator Benchmarking Calibration Radiotherapy Conformal Tomography Spiral Computed Beam (structure) |
| Zdroj: | Medical Physics. 30:1118-1127 |
| ISSN: | 0094-2405 |
| DOI: | 10.1118/1.1576395 |
| Popis: | A clinical helical tomotherapy treatment machine has been installed at the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center. Beam alignment has been finalized and accepted by UW staff. Helical tomotherapy will soon be clinically available to other sites. Clinical physicists who expect to work with this machine will need to be familiar with its unique dosimetric characteristics, and those related to the geometrical beam configuration and its verification are described here. A series of alignment tests and the results are presented. Helical tomotherapy utilizes an array of post-patient xenon-filled megavoltage radiation detectors. These detectors have proved capable of performing some alignment verification tests. That is particularly advantageous because those tests can then be automated and easily performed on an ongoing basis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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