Title :
Periodic testing for dynamic multileaf collimation
Author :
Klein, Eric E. ; Low, Daniel A. ; Markman, Jerry
Author_Institution :
Mallinckroddt Inst. of Radiol., St. Louis, MO, USA
Abstract :
The authors´ institution has commissioned a commercial, dynamic multileaf collimation (DMLC) delivery system. The software provided by Varian drives an 80 and 52 leaf MLCs that reside on dual energy linear accelerators. During commissioning, the authors derived that some particular tests must be repeated periodically. Here, they describe the periodic testing performed for their DMLC program
Keywords :
linear accelerators; medical computing; radiation therapy; testing; Varian software; dual energy linear accelerators; dynamic multileaf collimation; periodic testing; radiotherapy; Calibration; Collimators; Imaging phantoms; Ionization chambers; Linear accelerators; Performance evaluation; Radiology; Software systems; Strips; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2000. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6465-1
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2000.901293
