Customised compensation using intensity modulated beams delivered by dynamic multileaf collimation

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-65

  Mott, Judith H L ^a   Hounsell, Alan R ^a   Budgell, Geoffrey J ^a   Wilkinson, John M ^a   Williams, Peter C ^a  

^a CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Customised compensation; Dynamic MLC; Intensity modulated radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTING; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSE CALCULATION; DYNAMICS; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY;

HUMANS; PELVIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0032748959     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(99)00125-5     Document Type: Article

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