A simple model for examining issues in radiotherapy optimization

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1212-1221

  Shepard, David M ^a,b   Olivera, Gustavo ^b   Angelos, Lisa ^b   Sauer, Otto ^b   Reckwerdt, Paul ^b   Mackie, T Rockwell ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; RADIOTHERAPY;

ARBITRARY ANGLES; CONVOLUTION/SUPERPOSITION; CYLINDRICAL SYMMETRY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; SIMPLE MODELING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSE CALCULATION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0032764809     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598615     Document Type: Article

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