Computer verification of fluence map for intensity modulated radiation therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2084-2092

  Xing, Lei ^a   Li, Jonathan G ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

IMRT; Intensity modulation; Leaf sequences; Multileaf collimator; Treatment verification

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER MUSIC; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

IMRT; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; LEAF SEQUENCES; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; TREATMENT VERIFICATION;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 0033796474     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1289374     Document Type: Article

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