Intensity modulation with the 'step and shoot' technique using a commercial MLC: A planning study

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1315-1324

  Keller Reichenbecher, Mark Aleksi ^a   Bortfeld, Thomas ^a   Levegrün, Sabine ^a   Stein, Jörg ^b   Preiser, Konrad ^a   Schlegel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b MRC SYSTEMS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

'Step and shoot' technique; Conformal radiotherapy; Inverse problem; Multileaf collimators; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

BRAIN STEM; CHORDOMA; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEURILEMMOMA; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHYSICS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032785006     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(99)00324-7     Document Type: Article

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