Planning and delivering high doses to targets surrounding the spinal cord at the lower neck and upper mediastinal levels: Static beam-segmentation technique executed with a multileaf collimator

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 271-279

  De Neve, W ^a   De Wagter, C ^a   De Jaeger, K ^a   Thienpont, M ^a   Colle, C ^a   Derycke, S ^a   Schelfhout, J ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Beam intensity modulation; Multileaf collimators

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION PHYSICS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0030234045     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-8140(96)01784-7     Document Type: Article

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