Beam characteristics and clinical possibilities of a new compact treatment unit design combining narrow pencil beam scanning and segmental multileaf collimation

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2358-2369

  Svensson, Roger ^a   Lind, Bengt ^a   Brahme, Anders ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bremsstrahlung targets; Intensity modulation; Radio biological optimization; Scanned beams; Treatment units

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; HEAVY METALS; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCANNING; WATER VAPOR;

BEAM CHARACTERISTICS; DYNAMIC MULTILEAF COLLIMATION; FLUENCE DISTRIBUTION; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; SCANNED BEAMS; TREATMENT UNITS; TREATMENT VERIFICATION;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREMS RADIATION; CASE REPORT; COLLIMATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 0032444836     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598446     Document Type: Article

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