Determining the optimal dosimetric leaf gap setting for rounded leaf-end multileaf collimator systems by simple test fields
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Determining the optimal dosimetric leaf gap setting for rounded leaf‐end multileaf collimator systems by simple test fields
Individual QA for IMRT/VMAT plans is required by protocols. Sometimes plans cannot pass the institute's QA criteria. For the Eclipse treatment planning system (TPS) with rounded leaf-end multileaf collimator (MLC), one practical way to improve the agreement of planned and delivered doses is to tune the value of dosimetric leaf gap (DLG) in the TPS from the measured DLG. We propose that this ste...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1526-9914
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v16i4.5321