Use of a multileaf collimator as a dynamic missing-tissue compensator

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1199-1206

  Geis, Paul ^a   Boyer, Arthur L ^a   Wells, Nathan H ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

beam modulation; compensating filters; multileaf collimators

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DYNAMICS; MODULATION;

BEAM MODULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DYNAMIC MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; ISODOSE DISTRIBUTION; MONITOR UNITS; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; TWO-DIMENSION; X-RAY FIELD;

TISSUE;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; X RAY;

EID: 0029902074     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597675     Document Type: Article

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