Configuration options for intensity-modulated radiation therapy using multiple static fields shaped by a multileaf collimator

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 241-260

  Webb, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER; DOSIMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PHYSICS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0031952132     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/2/003     Document Type: Article

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