An investigation of tomotherapy beam delivery

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 425-436

  Yang, James N ^a,b   Mackie, T Rock ^a   Reckwerdt, Paul ^a   Deasy, Joseph O ^a,c   Thomadsen, Bruce R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b S Wisconsin Radiotherapy Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

conformal radiotherapy; helical beam; motion artifacts; tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

PHANTOMS;

BREATH FREQUENCY; BREATHING MOTIONS; CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; EXPERIMENTAL SIMULATIONS; HELICAL BEAM; MOTION ARTIFACT; TOMOTHERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BEAM THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 0030971426     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597909     Document Type: Article

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