Verification of the omni wedge technique

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1419-1423

  Milliken, Barrett D ^a   Turian, Julius V ^b   Hamilton, Russell J ^b   Rubin, Steven J ^b   Kuchnir, Franca T ^b   Yu, Cedric X ^c   Wong, John W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

3D conformal radiation therapy; Dynamic wedge; Film dosimetry; Multileaf collimator; Omni wedge; Wedge

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DOSIMETRY;

3D CONFORMAL RADIATION THERAPY; FILM DOSIMETRY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; OMNI WEDGE; WEDGE;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD;

EID: 0031844141     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598314     Document Type: Article

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