Vol 13, No 1 (2012)

Table of Contents

Editorials

Editorial: Radiological Emergencies and the Medical Physicist PDF HTML
George Starkschall
Radiological Emergencies and the Medical Physicist PDF HTML
William R. Hendee

Radiation Oncology Physics

Dosimetric characteristics of the small diameter BrainLabTM cones used for stereotactic radiosurgery PDF HTML
Gocha Khelashvili, James Chu, Aidnag Diaz, Julius Turian
Influence of acquisition parameters on MV-CBCT image quality PDF HTML
Olivier Gayou
Investigation of the feasibility of a simple method for verifying the motion of a binary multileaf collimator synchronized with the rotation of the gantry for helical tomotherapy PDF HTML
Masatoshi Hashimoto, Masahiro Uematsu, Makiko Ito, Yukihiro Hama, Takayuki Inomata, Masahiro Fujii, Teiji Nishio, Naoki Nakamura, Keiichi Nakagawa
An opposed matched field IMRT technique for prostate cancer patients with bilateral prosthetic hips PDF HTML
Shahin Fattahi, Orest Ostapiak
Dose to craniofacial region through portal imaging of pediatric brain tumors PDF HTML
Christine J. Hitchen, Etin-Osa Osa, Keith DeWyngaert, Jenghwa Chang, Ashwatha Narayana
Radiochromic film dosimetry of rectal inhomogeneity and applicator attenuation in high dose rate brachytherapy of uterine cervix PDF HTML
Satish C. Uniyal, Umesh C. Naithani, Sunil D. Sharma, Anoop K. Srivastava
Image quality of an investigational imaging panel for use with the imaging beam line cone-beam CT PDF HTML
Chris Beltran
Effects of dose scaling on delivery quality assurance in tomotherapy PDF HTML
Nathan Whitmore, Adrian Nalichowski, Jay Burmeister
Medical physics staffing for radiation oncology: a decade of experience in Ontario, Canada PDF HTML
Jerry J. Battista, Brenda G. Clark, Michael S. Patterson, Luc Beaulieu, Michael B. Sharpe, L. John Schreiner, Miller S. MacPherson, Jacob Van Dyk
Sensitivity of a helical diode array device to delivery errors in IMRT treatment and establishment of tolerance level for pretreatment QA PDF HTML
Feliciano Garcia-Vicente, Virginia Fernandez, Rocio Bermudez, Alberto Gomez, Leopoldo Perez, Almudena Zapatero, Juan J. Torres
A “rolling average” multiple adaptive planning method to compensate for target volume changes in image-guided radiotherapy of prostate cancer PDF HTML
Han Liu, Qiuwen Wu
Anatomy driven optimization strategy for total marrow irradiation with a volumetric modulated arc therapy technique PDF HTML
Pietro Mancosu, Pierina Navarria, Luca Castagna, Antonella Roggio, Chiara Pellegrini, Giacomo Reggiori, Antonella Fogliata, Francesca Lobefalo, Simona Castiglioni, Filippo Alongi, Luca Cozzi, Armando Santoro, Marta Scorsetti
A quality assurance tool for helical tomotherapy using a step-wedge phantom and the on-board MVCT detector PDF HTML
Vincent Althof, Paul van Haaren, Rik Westendorp, Tonnis Nuver, Dinant Kramer, Marijke Ikink, Arjen Bel, Andre Minken
4D CT image acquisition errors in SBRT of liver identified using correlation PDF HTML
Martin Szegedi, Vikren Sarkar, Prema Rassiah-Szegedi, Brian Wang, Y. Jessica Huang, Hui Zhao, Bill Salter

Medical Imaging

Calculating the peak skin dose resulting from fluoroscopically-guided interventions. Part II: Case studies PDF HTML
A. Kyle Jones, Alexander S. Pasciak
Establishing the quality management baseline in the use of computed tomography machines in Kenya PDF HTML
Geoffrey K. Korir, Jeska S. Wambani, Ian K. Korir, Bernard O. Ochieng
Image intensifier distortion correction for fluoroscopic RSA: the need for independent accuracy assessment PDF HTML
Angela E. Kedgley, Anne-Marie V. Fox, Thomas R. Jenkyn

Technical Notes

A study of segment weight optimization with the CMS XiO step-and-shoot IMRT technique for prostate cancer PDF HTML
Prabhakar Ramachandran, Jim Cramb, Christopher Gehrke, Justin Anderson, Judy Andrews
Skyshine photon doses from 6 and 10 MV medical linear accelerators PDF HTML
Eduardo de Paiva, Luiz A.R. da Rosa


















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