On compensator design for photon beam intensity-modulated conformal therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 668-675

  Jiang, Steve B ^a   Ayyangar, Komanduri M ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Compensator; Conformal therapy; Intensity modulation; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HARDENING; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; RADIOTHERAPY; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE SCATTERING;

BEAM HARDENING EFFECTS; CHANGE OF CHARACTERISTICS; COMPENSATOR; CONFORMAL THERAPY; FLUENCE DISTRIBUTION; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; OPTIMAL COMPENSATORS; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031805413     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598250     Document Type: Article

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