The optimum intensities for multiple static multileaf collimator field compensation

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1147-1156

  Evans, Philip M ^a   Hansen, Vibeke N ^a   Swindell, William ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conformal radiotherapy; Intensity modulated beams; Multileaf collimators

Indexed keywords

GRAPHIC METHODS; RADIOTHERAPY;

BEAM INTENSITY; BREAST RADIOTHERAPY; CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED; MEAN SQUARE DEVIATION; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; UNIFORM BEAMS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; HISTOGRAM; IRRADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0030748223     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598081     Document Type: Article

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