Tomotherapy: A new concept for the delivery of dynamic conformal radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 1709-1719

  Kinsella, Timothy ^a   Deasy, Joseph O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

treatment units CT scanner conformal radiotherapy treatment planning; treatment verification

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIOTHERAPY; ROTATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIOTHERAPY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0027141318     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.596958     Document Type: Article

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