Clinically shaped fields: Relative outputs for varian multileaf collimators and tray-mounted cerrobend blocks

Medical Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1257-1259

  Meyer, Klaudia H ^a   Skubic, Stanley E ^a   Baird, Leemon C ^a   Virudachalam, Ramasamy ^a   Asche, David R ^a  

^a Radiological Associates of Sacramento Medical Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerrobend; Irregular field; MLC; Multileaf collimator; Output factor

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

CENTRAL AXIS; CERROBEND; CLINICAL APPLICATION; IRREGULAR FIELD; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; OUTPUT FACTORS; SOLID WATER; STANDARD DEVIATION;

STATISTICS;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; LIGHT SCATTERING; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032810382     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598620     Document Type: Article

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