Open AccessPretreatment dose verification in volumetric modulated arc therapy using liquid ionization chamber
Author(s) -
Nitin R Kakade,
Rajesh Kumar,
Sunil Dutt Sharma,
Vikram Mittal,
Debabrata Datta
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of medical physics/journal of medical physics
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1998-3913
pISSN - 0971-6203
DOI - 10.4103/jmp.jmp_108_18
Subject(s) - ionization chamber , dosimeter , dose profile , dosimetry , nuclear medicine , repeatability , imaging phantom , ionization , percentage depth dose curve , materials science , absorbed dose , physics , chemistry , medicine , ion , chromatography , quantum mechanics
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the practicability of liquid ionization chamber (LIC) for pretreatment dose verification of the advanced radiotherapy techniques such as volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT).