A method to study the characteristics of 3D dose distributions created by superposition of many intensity-modulated beams delivered via a slit aperture with multiple absorbing vanes

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2135-2153

  Webb, S ^a   Oldham, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; GEOMETRY; IRRADIATION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD;

HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0029743342     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/41/10/020     Document Type: Article

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