Purpose A joint IAEA/AAPM international working group has developed a Code of Practice
(CoP) for the dosimetry of small static fields used in external megavoltage photon beam …

This review provides a complete technical description of the CyberKnife® VSI™ System, the
latest addition to the CyberKnife product family, which was released in September 2009 …

Small‐field dosimetry used in advance treatment technologies poses challenges due to loss
of lateral charged particle equilibrium (LCPE), occlusion of the primary photon source, and …

The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) is a nonprofit professional
society whose primary purposes are to advance the science, education and professional …

Purpose: Two new codes, penEasy and penEasyLinac, which automate the Monte Carlo
simulation of Varian Clinacs of the 600, 1800, 2100, and 2300 series, together with their …

Purpose: Flattening filters (FFs) have been considered as an integral part of the treatment
head of a medical accelerator for more than 50 years. The reasons for the longstanding use …

Purpose: Magnetic resonance imaging–guided radiotherapy (MRIgRT) provides superior
soft‐tissue contrast and real‐time imaging compared with standard image‐guided RT, which …

The task group (TG) for quality assurance for robotic radiosurgery was formed by the
American Association of Physicists in Medicine's Science Council under the direction of the …

Helical tomotherapy is a relatively new modality with integrated treatment planning and
delivery hardware for radiation therapy treatments. In view of the uniqueness of the …

While scintillation dosimetry has been around for decades, the need for a dosimeter tailored
to the reality of modern radiation therapy—in particular a real-time, water-equivalent, energy …