Dose calculation for photon beams with intensity modulation generated by dynamic jaw or multileaf collimations

Medical Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1994, Pages 1237-1244

  Chui, Chen Shou ^a   LoSasso, Thomas ^a   Spirou, Soiridon ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

dose calculation; dynamic jaws; intensity modulation; multileaf collimators

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS;

CORRECTION FACTORS; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; FLUENCE DISTRIBUTION; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; INTENSITY-MODULATED; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS;

MODULATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSE CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0028071498     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597206     Document Type: Article

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