The 'equivalent wedge' implementation of the Varian Enhanced Dynamic Wedge (EDW) into a treatment planning system

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 509-524

  Papatheodorou, Spiridon ^a   Zefkili, Sofia ^a   Rosenwald, Jean Claude ^a  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; GEOMETRY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0032912080     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/2/016     Document Type: Article

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