Dosimetric verification of a commercial inverse treatment planning system

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 463-478

  Xing, Lei ^a   Curran, Bruce ^b   Hill, Robert ^b   Holmes, Tim ^b   Ma, Lijun ^a   Forster, Kenneth M ^a   Boyer, Arthur L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOMOS Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR;

ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; WATER;

EID: 0032911422     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/2/013     Document Type: Article

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