Design and characterization of a dynamic multileaf collimator

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3149-3155

  Loi, Gianfranco ^a   Pignoli, Emanuele ^a   Scorsetti, Marta ^a   Cerreta, Vincenzo ^a   Somigliana, Anna ^a   Marchesini, Renato ^a   Gramaglia, Alberto ^a   Cerchiari, Ugo ^a   Ricci, Sante Basso ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DOSIMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

NEOPLASMS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIATION, IONIZING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 0031691778     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/10/033     Document Type: Article

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