Temporal resolution requirements for intensity modulated radiation therapy delivered by multileaf collimators

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1581-1596

  Budgell, G J ^a  

^a CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; IRRADIATION; LINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT;

CALIBRATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0032794120     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/7/301     Document Type: Article

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