An experimental investigation of the tongue and groove effect for the Philips multileaf collimator

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3157-3165

  Sykes, Jonathan R ^a   Williams, Peter C ^a  

^a CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIATION, IONIZING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; X-RAY FILM; X-RAYS;

EID: 0031695242     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/10/034     Document Type: Article

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