Testing of dynamic multileaf collimation

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 635-641

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

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic multileaf collimators; intensity modulated fields; quality assurance

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

ACCELERATION AND DECELERATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DYNAMIC MULTILEAF COLLIMATION; DYNAMIC MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; INTENSITY-MODULATED; MECHANICAL ASPECTS; MECHANICAL RELIABILITY; POSITIONAL ACCURACY;

DYNAMICS;

ACCELERATION; ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COLLIMATOR; DECELERATION; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0029931223     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597699     Document Type: Article

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