Multileaf collimator leaf sequencing algorithm for intensity modulated beams with multiple static segments

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1424-1434

  Xia, Ping ^a   Verhey, Lynn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conformal therapy; Intensity modulation; Multileaf collimators

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; MODULATION;

CONFORMAL THERAPY; CORVUS PLANNING SYSTEMS; INTENSITY MATRIXES; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; INTENSITY-MODULATED; MAXIMUM INTENSITIES; MOTION CONSTRAINTS; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; DOSE RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD;

EID: 0031868367     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598315     Document Type: Article

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