Independent verification using portal imaging of intensity-modulated beam delivery by the dynamic MLC technique

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1872-1879

  Partridge, Michael ^a   Evans, Philip M ^a   Mosleh Shirazi, Amin ^a   Convery, David ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic multileaf collimators; Electronic portal imaging; Intensity modulated beams; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DYNAMIC MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING; INTENSITY IMAGES; INTENSITY-MODULATED; MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; VERIFICATION PROBLEMS;

OPTICAL COLLIMATORS;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031732429     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598376     Document Type: Article

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