Evaluation of an innovative plastic cube phantom designed to improve the efficiency of accelerator QA

A new cubic phantom was designed to improve the efficiency on the QA measurement of accelerator. It has a variety of applications, such as dose constancy check, depth dose verifications, and symmetry and flatness evaluations. In particular, this new design makes it much easier to perform the check o...

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Autores principales: Huang, J. C., Reinstein, L. E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2000
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Radiation Measurements
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5726157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11674831
http://dx.doi.org/10.1120/jacmp.v1i4.2637
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description A new cubic phantom was designed to improve the efficiency on the QA measurement of accelerator. It has a variety of applications, such as dose constancy check, depth dose verifications, and symmetry and flatness evaluations. In particular, this new design makes it much easier to perform the check on output constancy vs. gantry angles as a cylindrical ion chamber positioned at the center of the phantom. The reproducibility of the setup using this phantom has been investigated. The charge effect of the phantom is found to be insignificant. It also reduces the monthly dosimetric QA time spent on a typical multimodality accelerator by approximately 40%. PACS number(s): 87.66.–a
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spelling pubmed-57261572018-04-02 Evaluation of an innovative plastic cube phantom designed to improve the efficiency of accelerator QA Huang, J. C. Reinstein, L. E. J Appl Clin Med Phys Radiation Measurements A new cubic phantom was designed to improve the efficiency on the QA measurement of accelerator. It has a variety of applications, such as dose constancy check, depth dose verifications, and symmetry and flatness evaluations. In particular, this new design makes it much easier to perform the check on output constancy vs. gantry angles as a cylindrical ion chamber positioned at the center of the phantom. The reproducibility of the setup using this phantom has been investigated. The charge effect of the phantom is found to be insignificant. It also reduces the monthly dosimetric QA time spent on a typical multimodality accelerator by approximately 40%. PACS number(s): 87.66.–a John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2000-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5726157/ /pubmed/11674831 http://dx.doi.org/10.1120/jacmp.v1i4.2637 Text en © 2000 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Evaluation of an innovative plastic cube phantom designed to improve the efficiency of accelerator QA
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title_fullStr Evaluation of an innovative plastic cube phantom designed to improve the efficiency of accelerator QA
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title_short Evaluation of an innovative plastic cube phantom designed to improve the efficiency of accelerator QA
title_sort evaluation of an innovative plastic cube phantom designed to improve the efficiency of accelerator qa
topic Radiation Measurements
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5726157/
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