Dynamic multileaf collimation without 'tongue-and-groove' underdosage effects

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2091-2105

  Van Santvoort, J P C ^a   Heijmen, B J M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; PHOTONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0029762999     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/41/10/017     Document Type: Article

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