A practical method for the calculation of multileaf collimator shaped fields output factors

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2385-2389

  Yuen, K ^a   Al Ghazi, M S A L ^b   Swift, C L ^a   White, C A ^c  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Multileaf collimators; Output factors

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; LINEAR ACCELERATORS;

CLINICAL TREATMENTS; MEASURED VALUES; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; OUTPUT FACTORS; PRACTICAL METHOD; RADIATION FIELD;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; METHODOLOGY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SCATTERING;

EID: 0032742680     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598754     Document Type: Article

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