Comparison of algorithms for multileaf collimator field segmentation

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2390-2396

  Que, William ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conformal therapy; Intensity modulation; Multileaf collimator

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

CLINICAL TREATMENTS; CONFORMAL THERAPY; INTENSITY LEVELS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; MULTIPLE ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONIZING RADIATION; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD;

EID: 0032736686     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598755     Document Type: Article

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