A formalism to calculate the output ratio in a mini-phantom for a GE multileaf collimator

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 521-536

  Georg, D ^a,b   Dutreix, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; ELECTRON BEAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0030994742     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/42/3/006     Document Type: Article

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