Design considerations for the sides of multileaf collimator leaves

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1335-1342

  Yu, Cedric X ^a,b  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THEORY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0031949109     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/5/022     Document Type: Article

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