Automatic detection of single MLC leaf positions with corrections for penumbral effects and portal imager dose rate characteristics

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 313-334

  Eilertsen, K ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY;

AUTOMATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031057752     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/42/2/005     Document Type: Article

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